The reviewer’s first exposure to FrontPage 2002 pretty much agrees with the FrontPage 2000 (Win98) AU Review done by Jim Allen in April 2000.

Please note the following exceptions:

In the Tools | Pages Options | HTML Source process, when saving files, if you check ‘Reformat using the rules below’, and check the rule ‘Tag Names are lower case’, it changes the case of the word DOCTYPE in the DOCTYPE declaration to lower case.

There are several wizards that come with Frontpage 2002 that allow you to create complete web sites by specifying just a few options. These wizards include: Corporate Presence, Database Interface, Discussion Web, and Import Web. Unfortunately, these wizards do not use your default document when creating pages, so if you’ve coded a DOCTYPE declaration in your default document (see below), it will not be applied to your new web.

When inserting an image, there is no prompt for the author to add alternative text.

The “Default DOCTYPE Tutorial” at: http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/doctypesolution.asp still works.

When creating or editing a text hyperlink, the Edit Hyperlink function now allows for the entry of a title attribute. Select “Screen Tip’, which brings up the ‘Set Hyperlink ScreenTip’ dialog box. Type the title attribute in the ‘ScreenTip text’ box, and press OK.

Tried using the FrontPage 2000 Keyboard Shortcuts as listed on: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/download/products/office/fp2k/keyboard.txt

All of the shortcuts listed in the document still apply, although with the new features added in Frontpage 2002, the list will most likely be updated. One problem did crop up, which may be due to the reviewer’s inexperience with keyboard navigation. When pasting the clipboard contents, an icon appears with a dropdown list with radio buttons to which allow the user to fine tune the paste options; the reviewer was unable to determine how to get to that icon using the keyboard. The reviewer was also unable to find comparable options in the toolbar.

Accessibility features in FrontPage 2002 - The Help section contains information on accessibility features in FrontPage 2002, but the commands documented use the words click and drag quite frequently. I have attached a copy of the Help section.

FrontPage 2002 supports speech recognition. It is accessed from the Tools menu. There are no special system requirements, except a headset with a microphone.