Document Accessibility – April 2023
Event write up by Hanneke ter Veen-Hockney, regular attendee “If you don’t design for accessibility, it’s like saying to every fifth person who walks in your door, ‘I don’t really want your business.’”*
Category: Event Write Ups
Manipulating PDFs – February 2023
Event write up by Sharon Gordon, regular attendee The DEG event, Manipulating and Managing PDFs, that took place in February 2023 was very enlightening, and I am very glad I was able to attend as I learned a lot about PDFs and how they are being used today.
DEG Teams Talk – January 2023
Event write up by Joanne Humber, committee member. This online Teams roundtable meeting, led by Richard MacDougal, Sherry Kappel, Tracy Kraft, and Pat Mansuy, certainly proved popular and opened up everyone’s eyes to both the possibilities and the pitfalls of this software! Teams was actually launched in 2017, but it …
Ask the Experts – January 2023
Event write up by Joanne Humber, committee member. Well, what a great session that was! The first in-person combined with Zoom event happened at Milbank’s very smart new offices at 100 Liverpool Street. It was so good to see some familiar faces both sitting around the conference table and on …
Document Excellence Day – October 2018
Event write up by Sue McNulty, regular attendee From jazzy socks to Word Perfect memories to Scottish humourism – the Document Excellence Day did not fail to deliver, as always.
Document Excellence Day – 4th October 2017
Event write up by Julie McCarthy, committee I have been attending this event now for around 5 years and have to say this has got to be one of the best ones yet!! It was so well organised and ran exactly to the timings on the agenda. We started the …
Planning the Document Excellence Day
Event write up by Clare Waller, committee member and event chair As each year goes by and the event grows, the Document Excellence Day takes just that little bit more effort to organise. On the up side, every year we learn how to do things better and I hope that …
Document Excellence Day (formerly Word Excellence Day) – still lived up to its name
Event write up by Teresa Vincent, regular attendee This year’s Document Excellence Day was as great as ever. I came away with some useful tips and lots of food for thought. I imagine most of the attendees like me are trying to find meaningful ways of including a 3D Hubble …