------- Additional Comments From vsync@wego.com  11/16/00 16:36 -------
Done.

Please ensure that Word is not used to generate documents in the future.  Word
generates gratuitiously incompatible HTML, including the use of "special
characters" that only appear correctly on Micros~1 platforms.  In many cases,
the results alter the meaning of sentences, which can be disastrous in a legal
document.

In addition, Word ignores the elements built into HTML for structural markup and
does its own visual markup, badly.  This makes the result dependant on the user
agent and also removes any ability to do structural parsing of the document.
This makes utilizing the site especially difficult for blind users, who may use
auditory user agents.  Word also explicitly specifies the font to be used, which
makes the text unreadable on most platforms, and also sets fonts that are much
too small for online reading.  It is worth noting that a disabled user
successfully sued the International Olympic Committee for having broken and
unusable content on their site.

Finally, I suspect our contract might be open to legal challenges if it is
incorrectly formatted.  If we specify that it is "available on the World Wide
Web", that strongly implies that it follows Web standards.  If the user
attempted in good faith to access the document, but was unable to or received
garbled content, he or she might legitimately claim that he was unaware of the
terms and unable to follow them.

It took quite a while to fix this mess... Could the person(s) responsible please
see about working with someone who knows HTML for future revisions of this
document, to avoid this waste of time in the future?  Thanks...