[jaws-uk] Re: Marvins Website Project
- From: Léonie Watson <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:29:36 -0000
Marvin,
That's an awful lot of questions in just a single email. My advice
would be to learn to walk before you consider getting any farther.
You need to take a step back and look at some of the basic concepts
in accessible web design. There are a number of good resources =
available,
some of which I've listed below. I'm sure others may have more =
suggestions.
Dive Into Accessibility:
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
Building Accessible Web Sites:
http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/
Accessify:
http://www.accessify.com/
You mention using Jaws to validate that your site is accessible to
people with visual impairments, but you should consider building your =
site
to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. That way you'll know
you've got a good basis for supporting people with all kinds of ability,
including those who use screen readers.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
While you're at it, make sure that the code on each page validates.
You can learn a hell of a lot by debugging your own HTML and CSS.
W3C Markup Validator:
http://validator.w3.org/
Jigsaw CSS Validator:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
As you work through some of the sites given above, you'll start to
understand the key concepts that will help you achieve the goals you =
have
for your web site. You'll need these skills if you're going to build web
pages.
Once the basics are familiar to you, then you'll need to consider
looking at other techniques, such as scripting and database =
administration.
PHP and MySQL are certainly one combination, but you'll need to =
understand
the requirements of the system you plan to build much more fully, before =
you
decide whether those are the technologies you'll want to use. IMHO, =
that's a
good combination for home use, but I'd be less likely to use MySQL for
commercial use.
=20
This might sound like a lot of work, and you'd be right about that.
But it is a necessary step in the process of being able to design your =
own
web sites. If you have specific questions, ask on list, but try asking =
one
question at a time, show the code you've written that doesn't work and
outline the solutions you've already tried or the theories you think =
might
work. That way people will feel a lot more willing and able to lend a =
hand.
Regards,
Tink.
=20
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] =
On
Behalf Of marvin hunkin
Sent: 02 November 2006 22:59
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Marvins Website Project
Hi. building two websites, one a personal one, and the second one a
community service. okay, did these projects for my college courses, and =
got
the certificates in information technology at my college here, for =
software
applications and website design and web site administration. now, my =
site,
is a small site, which has the star trek page, 80s music page, and a =
small
disability site coming soon. now got frames, and want to take them out. =
now
using text pad to code all my pages, and now how do i take out the =
frames,
and put in div tags, and also need to fix out the layout and coding of =
my
tables, unless, is there some thing else i can use instead of tables, =
for
the star trek cast for each series. also looking to take out the =
keyboard
shortcuts, and using jaws, to vallidate that my pages is accessible for
people with disabilities, as i am totally blind and use speech to =
navigate
round in windows 2000. and internet explorer 6.0, and jaws version 6.10.
now, also for my big site, want to have a disability database on the
internet, so was wondering, is my my sql and php, the way to go, so how =
do i
go about doing that, and that will be a lter task. now, also got a =
contact
form, but need helpp in redirecting the page when submitted to a thank =
you
page, and now is there a script, to vallidate if fields are empty, and =
also
security for my page. have not got a site yet, as tried
http://www.bravenet.com and http://www.awardspace.com, not very speech
friendly.
so if you can help me out, send via regular e-mail to =
marvkin@xxxxxxxxxxx or
visit my Jaws Australia group to contact me on
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/JawsOz/
and need your help, a dummy page, a template, so can then copy and paste =
my
code into the existing template, and a document, explaining what changes =
you
made.
would take you 3 to 4 hours max.
now, need your help, so if you can help me out, let me know asap.
would like to get started this week if possible.
now can you also suggest a speech, friendly, free webhost in australia =
or
overseas, until i get a paid host, some time in 2007.
cheers Marvin.
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