Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Colour is at the core of accessibility. Exploring types of colour blindness with best practice tips and tools to ensure everyone can understand your message. Carrie Cousins
- E-learning: capturing your audience. Helping you maximise your e-learning output to meet the needs of your audience. Helen Hill
- Working together with content and design. Explaining how the product experience can be shaped together using content and design. Nithya Krishnan
- Structure and semantics for context. Discovering how content becomes intelligent, flexible, and capable of scalable personalisation through structure and semantics. Maxwell Hoffmann
- I’m just a technical writer. Or am I? Reflecting on his past career, the author shares his experiences and what’s involved in his current role. Ant Davey
- Is ours even a profession anymore? Sparking debate, this provocative article opines on the current professional status of technical communication in the UK. Derek Cooper
- Information 4.0 tools – comments. Following on from the article in Communicator Summer 2019, the author discloses the responses he received. Neil Perlin
- Grid-based layout and refined typography. Using Microsoft Word for grid-based page layout and refined typography. Yateendra Joshi
- PerfectIt 4 – product review. Appraising the latest version of PerfectIt, a tool that integrates with Word, and discovering whether it can improve the quality of your work. Alison Peck
- Back to school: tips and tricks for authors! Imparting tips when using Adobe FrameMaker and RoboHelp 2019 to make the best use of metadata possible and prepare your content for the future. Bernard Aschwanden
- Arrays, arrays and more arrays: part 4. Getting bored of arrays and list boxes. The author draws arrays to a conclusion. Mike Mee
Regular columns
- From the editor
- ISTC survey
- President’s view
- Professionalism and ethics
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Book review – How to Write Effective Business English by Fiona Talbot. Reviewed by Linda Robins.
- Content design – Robert Scott-Norton
- Adobe tips – Bernard Aschwanden
- A day in the life – Sarah Thomson
- Editing – Jean Rollinson