text to html

[Alex Snow]

I don't see the accessibility issue with converting text to html. could
someone please enlighten me?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: text to html


> Alex,
>
> This just isn't right.
>
> Do you realize what kind of accessibility barriers you're throwing up
> for people with this kind of approach? It rather raises the serious
> question of whether you mean to walk the walk, or just talk the talk.
>
> Yes, Word puts crap into html under the Save As option. But why is that
> your only other option?
>
> If you have to use Word, there's software that will do better.
>
>
> Alex Snow writes:
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> >
> > I was just looking for a tool that'll add stuff like <br> tags and
stuff. I
> > needed it for converting textfiles into html that I could use on
> > webpages...I used to use word for that but It inserts a lot of useless
crap
> > and the files are quite large.
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
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>
> Janina Sajka, Director
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> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
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