Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Broaden your audience with accessibility. Explaining how improved accessibility guidance can help technical communicators to reach a broader audience. Aedín Collins
- Content usability scorecard framework. Providing a fundamental insight into content usability by recommending a ready-for-use scorecard for measuring content. Savitha Nayak
- Scalable solutions for augmented reality. Outlining why SCHEMA ST4 can provide suitable content for augmented reality applications. Johannes Görz
- Stairway to the future. Telling the story about the high potential of an editorial team and their role in the information management process. Thomas Schubert
- Managing terminology with term checker. Offering reasons why terminology management is essential for translation workflows and looking at the TechScribe term checker. Jake Cahill
- Getting the most out of training. Writing in 1993 this article discusses the benefits, needs, expectations, and strategies for training technical communicators. Matthew Ellison
- Creating user forms: part 4. Coding an interface for your VBA code. Mike Mee
- Build your first hybrid mobile app. Mobile friendly website, Hybrid app, Progressive web app or a Native app? Which option is best for your organisation? This article assists with your decision-making. Phil Lane.
Regular columns
- From the editor
- President’s view
- Business affiliates
- CPD news
- Tax benefits
- Controlled language – Mike Unwalla
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Book review reflections – Linda Robins
- Book review – Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication. Edited by Stephen Crabbe. Reviewed by Alison Reeves, Alison Peck and Jean Rollinson.
- Editing – Jean Rollinson
Supplement
Special Supplement: 50 years of change
This supplement can be downloaded via this link: 50 years of change.
- History of word processors. Looking at the impact that word processing has had on technical communication and the author’s career. Neil Perlin
- What was it like in the old days Dad? Recalling the author’s early career as a technical communicator and discussing the changes in the industry since 1985. Tony Eyre
- Why the skill of writing well matters. Explaining why developing the skill of creating information that works will always be worthwhile. Rachel Potts
- 50 years of Communicator. Perusing 50 years of Communicator issues, and looking at whether the articles of yesteryear are still relevant today. Katherine Judge
- Hand-drawn technical illustrations. Starting with pen, pencil and paper, describing how things were and how technical illustration has changed over the years. Douglas Newton
- Unprecedented changes in technology. Discussing how changes in computer technology transformed design and print studios beyond recognition in the 1980s. Kevin Jeffery
- Same wine, different label? Through analysis, Ellis Pratt and Dominic Birn-Pratt have looked at job title trends. Ellis Pratt and Dominic Birn-Pratt
- From hardcopy to modem to the cloud. Working with the latest technologies since the 1990s, the author describes the changes that have taken place. Warren Singer
- Working without a spell checker. Software tools can make a huge difference; when creating documentation, the author describes her experience. Carol Leahy
- Macros: a brief history of time (saving). Summarising macros from the key-combo to a full programming language. Mike Mee
- 25 years of online help. Beginning with hypertext when the world wide web was in its infancy until today and looking at the author’s online help journey. Matthew Ellison
- As time goes by. The fundamental things apply… as time goes by. Through the author’s eyes, looking at technical communication then and now. Linda Robins
- Creating brochures in WordPerfect. Sharing how the author’s computer knowledge broke down barriers and prejudices at a university. Jean Rollinson
- Cut and paste with scissors and glue. Reminiscing of times gone by where someone else did the typing, the typesetting and the printing. Lois Wakeman