[nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

Sun Jan 22 22:28:31 UTC 2012

oh true. I could just checked what I typed to find out.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ignasi Cambra
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 4:28 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my IT class and html questions

I don't understand the problem. You will specify a background color
and font in your html code, so as long as you know what you want you
should be fine. Am I missing something?

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On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> 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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