[JAWSLite] Re: Web page design

Michael Bullis wrote:

I'm looking for a recommendation of a good web page creater that's
jaws friendly.  Right now I'm using notepad to get my feet wet but
wonder what people use out there.


You didn't specify precisely what features you need, so I'll just give a
general response.

Because it's so hard to get good output from the current generation of
dedicated web design programs (NVU, DreamWeaver, Microsoft Visual Web
Developer), a decent text editor or programmer's IDE is best. Good
editors for the web should ideally do things like:

* Handle UTF-8 well, to make it easy to use unusual characters without
looking up entities.

* Provide a facility for reusing common bits of text, either in the form
of templates or snippets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_snippets

* Be able to escape HTML.

* Provide code completion.

* Match pairs of brackets in code and tags in markup
* Be able to convert markdown to HTML: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ 

Notepad doesn't do any of these things.

Here's a list of editors people have described as accessible that I've
been compiling:

http://access.benjaminhawkeslewis.com/accessible-authoring-tools

I'm always looking for additions to that list if anyone knows of any.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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