Re: blogging and jfw
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:10:24 -0800
Jim,
Well, as I said, I'm not exactly a wordPress power user, as we say. But I
do finally use it just as if it were a regular blog for posting, although I
have to choose a category in which to create a new post, which you probably
don't have to bother with.
So, I can probably assume that the actual page for creating and editing a
post looks the same to you as it does to me. Let me give the steps I go
through, and see if this sounds familiar and possibly helpful.
1. start at the Dashboard page. Using the Jaws links list or just a Find or
however you wish to do it, go to the Write link (the one labeled "write,"
that is) and press Enter.
2. Now of course you can tab through the various settings and combo boxes on
that page and set things in whatever way is right for you. But in terms of
entering the post itself, just navigate to edit fields using the E key. You
may come first to an edit field for the slug, which is a traditional
newspaper printing term but I forget what it means in WordPress. Then you'll
come to the title edit field, probably, and there you can type in a title
after of course pressing enter to get into Forms Mode.
next, just press the PC cursor key to get out of Forms Mode so you won't be
typing in the title field anymore, and hit E again. Jaws may not say
something that sounds very descriptive or helpful, but you'll be in the edit
field for the post. Let me go into WordPress and see what Jaws says when you
get to that field:
Well, I just went there and, unsurprisingly, Jaws said "Post, edit" when I
arrived in that field. So just press Enter to go into Forms mode again and
try typing. Then of course, after editing what you've typed, you'll want to
tab to either Save and continue Editing or just Save, which posts the
message.
I hope something I've said has helped. by the way when you open that Write
page, you may as well make sure the window is maximized by pressing alt
escape x, because if the window's reduced in size when that page opens, Jaws
might have a more difficult time making sense of it to help you work there.
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: blogging and jfw
Hi Yardbird, I was curious, I have created an account on the Wordpress site,
but when attempting to write a blog entry, I never could locate the edit box
with Jaws into which entries can be typed.
Perhaps you could let me know your secret.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: blogging and jfw
> Hi Ron,
>
> I use WordPress myself, and I've heard it described now and then on blind
> lists as being one of the screen reader friendly ones. But first of all,
> I'll confess that I had a professional Web design guy who's hosting my Web
> site do the design work to build the site using WordPress, because I
> didn't
> want a simple blog sort of setup. But I have looked around WordPress, and
> I
> am able to post to my site, edit posts, and all that. My only caveat would
> be that even though most WordPress functions seem to be fairly screen
> reader
> friendly, and there's documentation and user forums for help, it's an
> awfully cluttered site as far as I'm concerned, using Jaws, and when I've
> tried to look into the documentation I've been very frustrated and
> confused
> about what's going on within a page or what link leads to what resource, I
> think in a way a sighted user wouldn't suffer because they'd just see the
> pattern of how page elements were laid out and which ones were repetitious
> globally present page elements and which were the ones he or she was
> really
> focused on at that moment. But doing it blind can seem like a real maze,
> or
> did for me. I'd say try it out, though, because you may find it easier
> than
> I did to get oriented, and the functions you need may not be very
> difficult
> to avail yourself of
>
> Sorry that sounds so ambivalent, but I hope it helps. Again, I think if
> you're simply setting up a standard blog, and have a limited number of
> design features you wish to manipulate, it might be pretty much nice and
> easy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron McEwan" <ron.mcewan@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:23 AM
> Subject: blogging and jfw
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wanting to start blogging. can anyone recommend a good blogging site
> that is JFW friendly?
>
> ron
>
>
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