On this page the following entries were made in the “February, 2007” time-frame.
Archive for “February, 2007”
Copyediting tips
After sharing this tip with two people in two days, I realized it’s time to share this tip on the blog. For all your copyediting needs, join the Copyediting-L discussion list. This great list can help you out of struggles with convoluted sentences, elusive words, ghastly syntax, and so on. For the writer struggling alone [...]
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Accessibility and the law
The Digital Web Magazine led me to the article, Computer-based exam discriminated against blind candidate. A blind IT project manager who wanted to gain certification in project management did not have an accessible version of the computer-based exam made available to her by the company that provides the exam. Proceedings have been brought against the [...]
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Communication for improvement and growth
Many, many years ago, the managing director of the company where I worked accused me of being disloyal to said company. I had participated as technical secretary in a regularly scheduled meeting with all the technical managers where we had the usual agenda of evaluating or planning past, current, and future projects or events. A [...]
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Blogs, wikis, and the technical communicator – STC UK conference
The STC UK chapter is holding a one-day conference about wikis and blogs on Saturday, March 10th in Birmingham. Because I won’t be able to attend, I look forward to reading about it in a blog or hearing about it in a podcast.
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Survey about technical communication blogs
It is not very long ago that I blogged about Darren Barefoot’s blogging survey. Now there is a survey about technical communication blogs over at the STC Suncoast chapter site. Try it out, but you must hurry. It opened February 10th, and it is only open for a week.
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The Evil PDF
Gerry McGovern brings up a provocative thought in his February 5th issue of his New Thinking Newsletter. The title can make many a technical communicator sit up and take notice: PDFs are evil, lazy, slothful and sinful! We’re back to the basic question here: what are you trying to communicate? I think Gerry McGovern has [...]
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Making Accessible Tables for Your Website
Have you ever had trouble trying to code accessible tables on your Web site? I could never remember the codes myself. I always needed to have Mike Paciello‘s book, Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities opened up to the pages with all the codes for making accessible tables. Now Frank Palinkas has made a practical [...]
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