[JAWSLite] Re: help with a web site

No. Don't know it. Any writing I've done is manually in Notepad. I'm not 
sure how accessible programs like that are, and I wouldn't hold my breath 
over it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Can KIRCA" <cankirca@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:44 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: help with a web site


hi,
could you give some information about site builder?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean Menzies" <jemenzies@xxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:48 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: help with a web site


> Hello David,
>
> There are several things you can do.
>
> First, if you can get sighted help to identify what the links are, you can
> label them with Jaws. When you're on a link that reads with the image
> name,
> press insert-control-tab. You'll be in a dialog box where you can type the
> name you want Jaws to read when it encounters that link on that website.
> These settings are stored in your Jaws settings folder. This all works
> fine
> until the site author makes changes. LOL.
>
> In terms of educating, I've found it helpful to actually instruct people
> what they need to do. It's one thing for us to complain that it doesn't
> work
> well with screenreaders, but sighted people often don't get it and don't
> know what to do to fix it. It works fine for them, right?
>
> So, I looked at the code for the web page. I think the author used a site
> builder package and likely doesn't know how to edit the coding. But here's
> what to tell him.
>
> For a screenreader to properly read a link, it needs to have an alt tag.
> If
> it doesn't have an alt tag, then it reads the source file name or image
> name
> associated with the link in hopes of giving you some useful information.
> That's what you're getting.
>
> I picked a line from the code as an example. Turn on all punctuation as
> this
> has a lot of less than, greater than, quotation marks and slashes in it.:
>
> <tr><td><a href="ministries.html"><img name="i25"
> src="sitebuilder/images/Home-8-inactive-26687.png" border="0" width="205"
> height="19" alt=""/></a></td></tr><tr><td><a
>
> Near the end of this string is the code:
> alt=""
>
> You can see that this is an empty code because there is nothing between
> the
> two quotation marks. If the author puts text between the quotation marks,
> that's what a screenreader will read when you navigate to it. This text
> will
> also pop up for sighted users as they move their mouse over the image.
>
> I can tell this is created by a site builder because you see that in the
> coding, and no real author would have this much unspace coding. Ug. If you
> want to view the code for yourself, Load the page in Internet Explorer, go
> to the View menu and press enter on Source.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jean
>
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