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Thursday, 10 September 2009

Barry wrote: > > I've just spent 15 minutes trying, fruitlessly, to figure out,yet again, who, if anybody, is currently responsible for "IT strategy" in central government. That would be the Technology Policy division of CMOD, located in Lansdowne House. They don't seem to have much details about it on the web but they are responsible, as far as I know, for this site on ICT procurement frameworks. [1] Joshue wrote: [...] Charlie Pike from TPG >> gave an example of one at the last IIA gig that was really interesting[...] Yes, that was an interesting tool but can't remember its name. Open Office also has good support for structuring PDF though I have not used it myself. Again I think the public sector is some ways off being ready to migrate to anything other than MS Word. Mark wrote: > > Employ accessibility experts to create MS >>Word template(s), an author's guide and a format conversion >> guide. Regularly produced document types (e.g. planning decision reports or regional management plans) can have their own template. Not in the current economic climate, you won't :) i don't think many organisations have the money to engage consultancies. I commissioned a plug-in for Ms Word developed by Eoin Campbell based on something I used to use in the Oasis project. It provides a menu and toolbar with a bunch of buttons that aid in the writing of a structured Word document. We use it in conjunction with a paid service to convert content to accessible HTML but used in isolation it still goes a good way towards to assisting the non-technical author to create a structured Word document. It come with its own installer and instructions. i am happy to give it anyone who want it if they contact me off list. Regards, Dónal. [1] http://ictprocurement.gov.ie/