[CEUD-ICT] Tools for conversion of Ms Word documents to HTML

[Donal J. Rice]

Folks,
We're doing some research into tools for the conversion of content in MS
Word documents into accessible (X)HTML.  One of the biggest issues faced by
public bodies, ourselves included, is the large scale publishing of such
content to the a website and the cost and effort in conversions.  At the
moment I am researching free or commercially available tools.  I know of a
couple of offerings in Ireland including the YAWC facility and the
Riverdocs converter, although the latter is no longer available.  My
colleague Alan is looking at the following:
   "Word Cleaner" software from http://www.zapadoo.com
   "Word HTML Cleaner" at http://www.textism.com/wordcleaner/,
   "Virtual508.com Accessible Web Publishing Wizard" from
   http://www.virtual508.com/download.html (as recommended by WebAIM
   http://webaim.org/techniques/word/ )
   Word's own "Save as Web Page, Filtered" option

What are people's experience of trying these or other tools.  Main issues
in my experience with this work is that MS Word documents are typically
poorly structured so that the web author has a lot of work to do on
repurposing the MS Word prior to conversion or the HTML post conversion.
Also for larger reports it is desirable that the output is broken into a
number of HTML pages, with some form of navigation within the page.

Looking forward to hearing people's experiences.

Regards,
Dónal.


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