I started life as an archaeologist before retraining in IT and have wide experience of work in the voluntary / not for profit and continuing education sectors in Scotland where I am usually based. This has included database design, hardware support, software support, website design and tuition.
From 2009 - 2010 I was in Nairobi, Kenya as Assistive Technology Tutor with the Kenyan Society for the Blind. Then came two years in Ethiopia, working with the Addis Ababa HIV / AIDS Prevention and Control Office and the Ethiopian Midwives Association. My most recent stint abroad was another two years in Papua New Guinea as Provincial Capacity Building ICT Advisor on a United Nations Development Program / Ministry of Finance project. For now I am back in Scotland and a part time Open University tutor.
You can visit my website at http://tinyurl.com/visimpscot .
Authored Comments
Thanks for the tip Greg but bear in mid that pdf image files should be a last resort. Getting pdf files to play nicely with screen readers and similar assistive technology software can be a pain, if the pdf is not text it will never be accessible.
I guess that my choice of tool depends on the job in hand, luckily I do not have to do much work with heavily formatted documents, so in general I prefer to write in a text editor most of the time:
It lets me concentrate on the content without the distractions of formatting
Text editors have powerful find and replace functions across multiple files
A tabbed interface is useful if I need to have multiple files open
If I do need to write or edit markdown some syntax highlighting is useful