[Blindtlk] Questions About How To Post Links To A Webpage

[Bonnie Lucas]

Kerri,
I forwarded your email to a friend who is quite accomplished with computer
stuff and here is what he said:
Suggest the he tries to select the text he wants to make clickable, and hold
the control key while pressing the K key. This should allow him to type the
URL he wants to link to, for example his Twitter or Facebook account.
Hopefully this helps.
His email is
Michael Babcock <empoweringtheblind at icloud.com>
Good luck.

Bonnie Lucas

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From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kerri
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 10:07 AM
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Subject: [Blindtlk] Questions About How To Post Links To A Webpage

Hi everyone!!
I have a question I can't figure out! I write sports for a website which is
www.wajr.com. It's a radio station's website. In order to edit the site, I
write my story in word, select it, and copy it to the clipboard. Then, I go
to wajr.com/admin, log in, select my page, and hit edit page. It's your
typical web editor.
Here is the problem. Usually, I just copy and paste my text to the website
and I'm fine.
However, I'd like to put links to my twitter and facebook at the end of my
stories so people can click on the link and follow me or friend me on
Facebook. This is where I'm running into trouble.
At the top of the web editor, there is this huge toolbar with 60 different
buttons. Then, there is another area where the text is.
Apparently, you are supposed to select the text you want to make a link, and
hit the "link" button on the toolbar and then enter the URL you want to link
to. However, I can't figure out how to do this with a screenreader. If I
enter the text area and select something, I have to go out of this area to
get back to the toolbar to hit the link button and the text gets unselected.
I tried pasting my hyperlink the old-fashioned way by going into the editor,
going to the top of the text area and just hitting paste. The problem was
the formatting didn't carry over from word and the hyperlink didn't go over.
So then, I tried putting a hyperlink in my word document to my Twitter and
going into the web editor and hitting the paste from word button on the
toolbar. Well, it pasted my link fine, except it posted it on the very very
bottom of my page.
How do I go about putting it at the top?
Basically, if you want to do more than simply paste text, if you would like
to say post links or something with a web editor like this with a toolbar
with the buttons and then the separate text area how do you do this?
I love the "copy from word" button but the stupid editor puts my story and
my link at the very end of my page and I need the most recent story and my
link at the top not the bottom!!
The editor is called Flex CMS. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Kerri

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