[nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

[Ashley Bramlett]

Amy,
Thanks. I already plan to work with the professor in office hours. They did 
install jaws in the lab we are using.
She taught us to use notepad. But, I don't know if jaws will tell me the 
background colors and color of font. Maybe I will need a sighted person to 
do this with me?

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Amy Sabo
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:06 AM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

Hello Ashley,

To answer some of your it and html questions here's my views and what I 
somewhat know.

As for doing stuff in html I did it in notepad since that's how my 
exboyfriend does his web page but, when it came to doing the layout and all 
I couldn't make it look professionally.. I know all of this because when I 
was at ucd I took a web design class and, I had this problem myself. I 
unfortunately, had to drop the class since I couldn't get a tutor/reader for 
the class and, the classroom that we were using for the class was one of the 
computer labs on campus and the network administrator wouldn't let me use a 
software/or let me put jfw on a certain computer with a software package to 
make the software accessible for me to do the work in the class. So, make 
sure that your professor/network administrator will let you do this! Also, 
work as much if you can at home with the manual and, also work with the 
professor  at his office hours for his expertise on how it's looking.

Besides Microsoft FrontPage there's a software to use web sites with the 
accessibility with jfw called webtab. Unfortunately, I don't have the web 
site for it but, if you google it will be able for you rto find it!

As for graphics and, all that's something that you will need your prof for 
or sighted assistance from a classmate too. And, for the manuals for the 
above products I'm sure that they have accessible manuals and, I'm sure that 
your prof can provide those for you.

As for free sites for providing domain names for you to produce your work I 
don't know of any of them personally. But, I'm sure that others here on this 
list can provide that or you can always use your school's server for that. 
My exboyfriend when he was in college did this before he got his own domain 
name which was fine but, not everyone could access it and, if you want all 
access that might not be for you.

I hope this information is helpful for you with your it class. Take care and 
good luck with it!



Hugs,
amy

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
Of Ashley Bramlett
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:20 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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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