Converting Word documents to HTML with Eleventy

The most accessible way to share information online is to publish it as a webpage. While it's possible to make Word documents and PDFs accessible for people with disability, they do not match the flexibility, speed and shareability of a well-structured webpage. Webpages are better for all users.

In the communications sector, it's becoming more common for organisations and government departments to publish information as HTML webpages, usually as an alternative to a print PDF.

To make it easier for people to publish Word documents as webpages, I created the open-source Eleventy plugin eleventy-plugin-docx. This makes it possible to use Word documents as 'input' in your Eleventy site, and generate accessible, simple static HTML files for online publishing.

I'm keen to work on the plugin more, and create some example projects that show the potential of this workflow, as I believe Eleventy for building + Word for content is a really powerful combination.