Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Increasing user assistance visibility. Taking a journey from an information developer to a user assistance developer at SAP. Karla Reis
- Pursuits of the unsuspecting Polymath. From trepidation to elation; imparting her experiences and learning from her first TCUK conference. Lindsey Thomas
- TCUK 2018: a CPD reflective record. CPD is important for technical communicators. Mike uses his review of TCUK as part of his CPD. Mike Unwalla
- Your turn to shine. Encouraging you to submit a proposal for the next TCUK conference. Karen Mardahl
- So what do you do? Giving some tips on how to engage and excite people when describing your role as a technical writer. Helen Harbord
- “RoboCop” and “HLMT” redux? Sharing his experience showing why we don’t want to repeat old mistakes as we move into the future. Neil Perlin
- Accessibility in online documentation. Describing how to improve the accessibility of your online output for disabled readers who use assistive tools. Joanna Suau
- Review of Adobe RoboHelp 2019. Putting this brand new authoring tool from Adobe through its paces. Matthew Ellison
- Plunging into the waters of UX. Exploring user experience principles and how they can be applied to user manual tone and formatting. Maja Engel
- Information Design Summer School 2018. Outlining this annual course and its relevance to technical communication. Alison Peck
- The great STE myth. Deliberating the effectiveness of Simplified Technical English. Michael Bergstrom
- Arrays, arrays and more arrays: part 1. Love them or loathe them, you and VBA need arrays! Mike Mee
- Customising your first hybrid mobile app. Showing you how to add some identity to your app with a custom icon so that your customer will recognise your app on their mobile devices. Phil Lane
Regular columns
- From the editor
- President’s view
- UK Technical Communication news
- Mike Austin Award
- Horace Hockley Award
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Controlled language – Mike Unwalla
- Adobe tips – Bharat Prakash
- Book review – Information Security Management Principles by Andy Taylor (editor), David Alexander, Amanda Finch and David Sutton. Reviewed by Andrew Peck.
- Editing – Paul Baker