Thank you Adrian, this is helpful.Well I think I'll forget about the slug thing for now because am not sure what to write in that edit box+ACE-
I'm not sure which editor I'm using+ADs- I unticked the checkbox in my settings to +ACI-use visual editor+ACI- because I assumed it wouldn't be JAWS friendly. I'm using this editor where there are a few buttons for inserting the correct code, but I'll just write the code myself I think+ADs- I tried one of them to insert a link to see how it worked and it just asked for the address of the link and then put that there - you'd think they could also ask for the text you want to be the link so you wouldn't have to know how to close the tag+ADs- perhaps this is where the colours you mentioned come in. Anyhow I know enough HTML to make it simpler just to write the code.
Thanks, Catherine----- Original Message ----- From: +ACI-Adrian Higginbotham+ACI- +ADw-adrian.higginbotham+AEA-becta.org.uk+AD4-
To:+AD4- For further details and registration go to +AD4- http://www.becta.org.uk/events/harnessingtechnologySent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Blogging/Wordpress questions > Hi Catherine: > Can't promise to be absolutely accurate with all answers but as far as I > understand it... > > 1. What is pinging in the blogging context? > This relates to when other people link to your post from their own > blogs, you can opt for an alert whenever this happens. > > 2. slug - no idea but again it's vaguely releated to the same area, it's > about tracking posts and being able to link directly back to them. > > 3. categories. You can create as many categories as ou like, each time > you create a category it is added to your list of categories. When you > create a post you can choose from your list of available categories or > if you don't have an appropriate one you can add a new one. You add a > new category by typing it in to the category box and clicking the add > button. To existing categories are accompanied by checkboxes so using > jfw you can use the x key to jump between your existing categories and > use the spacebar to select appropriate ones. When you add a new > category it is automaticly selected. You can also set which category is > selected by default. If you don't set this it will default to a category > called 'uncategorised'. My understanding is that categories are the > different topicss available and that tagging is simply the process of > sellecting the appropriate categories. > > 4. global dashboard contains some different options but only really has > value if you have more than one blog, so for example in global dashboard > you would have links to the dashboards for each blog you manage. > > 5. I make heavy use of jfw quick nav key, so e to move between edit > boxes for title and main text. B to get to buttons, and x to move > between categoires that way you don't really need to spend much time > keying through the interface. For entering text there are two different > views avalable the code view and the other vieew, can't remember it's > name at present. One is like a simple text editor you type in all code > to format your entry to enter html you surround it with a code tag so > for a link you would type lessthan code greater than (with no spaces) > then your anchor ref code and then following the closing greaterthan of > your link type lessthan cde greaterthan. Using the visual layout you > can click the various buttons above the editable area and the relevant > codes are put in for you, you then just add your text however this uses > colour to suggest where you enter text so without vision requires a lot > of reviewing of the ocdes and assumes you know your html anyway so is > much slower and generally unpleasant. The editor sometimes behaves > strangely when trying to edit text so for longer posts I tend to write > the text in another application and then just copy and post in the > wordpress. > > There are blogg posting applications that let you post to your blog > directly from the desk top application but I haven't yet found a good > jaws friendly one, not that I've tried more than a couple. You can > however do this n word 2007 although I've only tried it once without > much success. Must give it another go. > > Adrian Higginbotham > > > Accessibility content manager > > British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA > Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994. > > Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@becta.org.uk > Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/ > BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@freelists.org [mailto:access-uk@freelists.org] On Behalf > Of Catherine Turner > Sent: 09 October 2007 16:46 > To: Access-UK > Subject: [access-uk] Blogging/Wordpress questions > > Hi, > > I'm setting up a blog on Wordpress and have a few questions, some of > which are about blogging in general and some more specific to using > Wordpress. > I'd be glad if anyone can answer any of them. > > 1. What is pinging in the blogging context? > > 2. What's a slug? I get asked when I want to make a post for the slug > and there's an edit box. > > 3. I understand there's a difference between categories and tagging, > and different people seem to have different opinions as to what that is. > My question is do you just make up the categories/tags and type them in > the edit box every time you make a post? Is there a list of categories > you can choose from? If you use a category once, can you choose it from > a list next time so you don't have to remember exactly what you called > that category last time? > > 4. At wordpress there are two links for dashboards - one is called my > dashboard, which seems to be the place to go to do anything you might > want to connected with posting, and the other is called global dashboard > - what is global dashboard for? > > 5. 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