[nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

[Ashley Bramlett]

Thanks. My professor suggested that site; glad to know it works!
I need an accessible tutorial to help design my mini site. The professor 
gave us all the codes for the practice assignments to get us started though. 
What is your major?
Thanks for your help.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

Look at http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. It is an HTML tutorial
and reference. They also have several other web languages.
An absolute path is the entire URL, like what I wrote above. However, the
homepage of the W3school site might have the following:
<a href="html/default.asp">HTML</a>
This is because the link is on their server in their directory. Let me know
if this does not make sense. Also feel free to email me off list. I am not
an expert, but I know at least a little as I have had to design websites for
projects before.

HTH,
Nicole

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:20 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] my IT class and html questions


> Hi all,
> As you might remember I’m in an introduction computer concepts class. I 
> want the knowledge to be a wise computer consumer and user. We are 
> learning about computer components like the CPU and motherboard and types 
> of memory.
> We also have to learn basic html and website design. We publish these 
> small webpages on our school server eventually. That is just one of many 
> assignments; we also go over the microsoft office suite.
>
> So my questions for those familiar with website making.
> 1. What software do you publish with? I’m curious. I know many are not 
> accessible. Maybe microsoft office front page?
> We are taught to write the html codes in notepad and save it as a html 
> file.
> We don’t need software for the class.
> Also, any accessible tutorials about html or website design? Our professor 
> gave some to us, online tutorials. I’ll see if they’re readable with jaws.
>
>
> 2. How do you handle the visual stuff such as graphics, color of text, and 
> background color? Will jaws read the colors when you open it up in a web 
> browser? I suspect you just have to see it with low vision if you have it 
> or ask a sighted person.
>
> 3. What is the difference between hyperlinks with relative and absolute 
> paths? My instructor doesn’t explain much about the codes; we just look at 
> the lab assignment and type it in. There is a code for each hyperlink put 
> in.
>
> 4. Any tips for learning the color and font system called CSS, cascading 
> style sheets? Do I just memorize the codes and what they mean. Not that we 
> are getting that fancy though.
>
> 5. Are there free places to publish websites? I do not think you have to 
> purchase web software or a website domain. Doesn’t google have something 
> free? I doubt I’ll publish, but wanted to know in case I decide to make 
> websites in the future.
> I’m using Word to read the lab assignment and find it challenging to 
> remember all the code and type it in exactly as it says in notepad. I do a 
> few words and characters at a time. What is interesting to me is that 
> there are six types of heading levels; 1 is the biggest and six the 
> smallest.
> So one number in the code makes a difference! the code is <h1> or a 2 for 
> heading 2.
> Thanks.
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