New software converts documents into web pages
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- Mar 05, 2007
The RiverDocs Converter is designed to help Governments, corporates and web agencies use a one-stop tool to mass convert documents for viewing online, in compliance with W3C standards.
The company said many organisations have previously focused on Website accessibility but have forgotten about making the documents accessible to users as well.
As a result, many Government and corporate websites fail to comply with regulations that require all information whether Web pages or documents to be accessible from any Internet device such as a computer, PDA or mobile phone to all users.
Previously it could have cost thousands of pounds to convert a single document due to the lengthy time it would take to manually write it to accessible HTML.
For example, a single 100-page document such as a Government report or annual financial report from a public company could cost up to £5,000 to be manually converted into accessible HTML by a web agency.
The company said the RiverDocs Converter can change the same document at about a tenth of the cost and in seconds and minutes rather than days and weeks.
The cost of RiverDocs Converter is £399 per seat and is downloadable from http://www.riverdocs.com/.
Oliver McVeigh, Head of Sales & Marketing, RiverDocs, said, "If you consider that a typical website has more pages in its documents than web pages, then most organisations are failing to comply with web accessibility standards. Those that have manually converted documents to HTML have spent thousands of pounds on single document conversion.
“RiverDocs Converter helps governments, organisations and web agencies quickly, easily and with an almost immediate return on investment convert documents into fully compliant HTML. We are now opening up to everyone the information locked in inaccessible documents."