You'd be able to do that online just fine, Rick. The only thing online u can't do is have root access, for obvious reasons. Ty mentioned linode & it'd give u that also, but for a price. Drupal sites to some extent are as accessible as the site owners want their site to be. There isn't anything inherent in drupal that makes it inaccessible. On 12/15/10, RicksPlace <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Everett: I have done a little poking around google to look at some Drupal > sites. I find many, many with very rough interfaces when using a screen > reader and some that you could not tell from a custom website - really > nicely laid out. Most of the Government sites were pretty nice and straight > forward. > If I want to build or modify templates, views and third party modules would > I need the PHP development stuff on my local machine or do the Drupal Hosts > allow for that level of programming by the nature of Drupal itself? > Most of the sites I have looked at that are demos displayed by some of the > hosts I have looked at re not very clean with a screen reader. Duplicat > links like having a link labeled HOME and then right after the link having a > List with one link in the LIst labeled HOME. Of course the Screen reader > reads the Home Link then something like List 1 with 1 item and then > cursoring down you get the HOME link, the second HOME link, again and then > the notification that you are at the end of the list. I notice this type of > duplication allot in Drupal sites but not in all of them. This would be the > type of thing I would want to get rid of so my sites look like normal, hand > coded, websites and not canned webpages. Anyway, Can I make the programming > mods necessary online or would I need a local development environment to > work with the MySql DB stuff, the PHP and whatever else might be involved. > Thanks: > Rick USA > -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride Scripting Classes: http://jawsscripting.lonsdalemedia.org homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net For technophobes: www.technophoeb.com __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind