Hardinge, a former technical author for a software company, wins £30,000 to add to the £5,000 she has already won as a category winner.
Hardinge, 42, who lives in Isleworth, wrote her first children's novel Fly by Night while working full-time as a technical author for a software company.
Hardinge completed the final revisions for Fly By Night while crossing central America, having set off to travel the world for a year after being made redundant from her job as a technical author and graphic designer.
She wrote her first novel, Fly By Night, while working as a technical author for a software company; it was published in 2005 and won the Branford Boase award.
But Newton Emerson, the editor of the internet site, agreed to leave his job as a technical author at a computer company just as few days before Christmas after complaints from the pro-republican newspaper, the Andersonstown News.
"It's easy for designers and commissioners to be seduced by the opportunities that software provides to create visually stunning designs, while forgetting about the audience," says Julie Howell, digital policy development manager for the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) and technical author of the new guidance.
Trevor English, an engineer and technical author based in Texas who has written about the workings of cruise ships, told the BBC that thousands of cruises take place each year and this type of failure - or combination of failures - is rare.
Atkinson, former founder and CEO of Mtivity (a marketing resource management software company), while Angus has previously formed a retail business in computing, two software development companies and a systems integration business, and was the technical author of the PageFusion PDF RIP server.
However, without wishing to be overcritical, it must be said that the (technical) author of the source text--through ambiguity, semantic shortcuts, inscrutable abbreviations, and nonsystematic use of terminology, to name just a few typical foibles--often contributes to the translation problem.
"The only people who will benefit... are the vendors, the criminals and" malicious hackers, Eric Raymond, a leading technical author, wrote to the Internet security group.
