Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-04 Thread Anders Nawroth
I have good experience with Tidy: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ /Anders George S. Williams skrev: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 06:36, Angela Galvin wrote: Secondly, with the Word documents, if there is an easier way to convert them to HTML? I use an open source program, antiword, to

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-04 Thread Zulema
Hope Stewart wrote: Hi Angela, I see that your email was sent using Apple Mail. Assuming you are also using Dreamweaver on a Mac, you can try what I do: cut paste the Word doc into AppleWorks. Then either save the AppleWorks doc as html or cut paste from AppleWorks into Dreamweaver.

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Jan Brasna
I've always thought that characters should be marked up with appropriate entity codes... It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters not written in their appropriate entity codes. Eh, maybe on anglo-saxon websites... The rest of the world has a different opinion ;) -- Jan Brasna

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:07:48 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote: For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with #8211;--- when using it in a normal sentence. Thats interesting - I escape such entities as ampersands () and double quotes (), but not things such as hyphens. What benefits or problems

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Geoff Deering
Matt Thommes wrote: What benefits or problems avoided do you perceive by doing this and what other characters are you escaping? Lea, I'm not sure why I always escape the dash - perhaps because I can??? :) I am assuming the dash will someday cause me problems, so I just escape it now, to

RE: [WSG] alt tags and image captions

2005-06-04 Thread Damian Sweeney
-Original Message- From: Hope Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 4 June 2005 12:40 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] alt tags and image captions Having never seen/heard a screen reader in action, I am uncertain about how to make some aspects of coding

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lea de Groot wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:07:48 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote: For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with #8211;--- when using it in a normal sentence. Thats interesting - I escape such entities as ampersands () and double quotes (), but not things

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:56:16 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote: For some reason, I feel I have to escape every character that is not a letter or number. OK, I'm always up for new Best Practices, but I do need some basis for adopting changes. I escape double quotes and ampersands because of the HTML

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Gene Falck
Hi Matt You wrote: Lea, I'm not sure why I always escape the dash - perhaps because I can??? :) I am assuming the dash will someday cause me problems, so I just escape it now, to avoid a lot of re-work. I don't expect an unescaped dash to cause trouble as it has, AFAIK, no meanings in code.

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-04 Thread Gene Falck
Hi Geoff, You wrote: ... I know I have developed sites in the past that I have felt pretty confident have been a good attempt at best of practice, but age sure shows their vintage, and I am not talking about the CSS, just thinking of the (X)HTML. LOL--that's quite nice compared to what I