[Nfb-web] introduction

Fri Oct 23 17:36:34 UTC 2009

Hello Peter,

    I believe you're referring to RFB&D. They require the use of a special 
download manager to download their audio books. Contact their tech support 
for assistance with your trouble. Bookshare.org no longer requires the use 
of such a program to access their books. All the best.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Wolfe" <sunspot005 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] introduction

Peter,

    It's Peter that oiginally posted about advice on learning
programming. I can't get my free Bookshare account to work right with
the player that I downloaded to read the documents. I've almost tried
everything with that stupid player. I thought originally you didn't
need a player to download the files?

On 10/23/09, Peter Donahue <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter and listers,
>
>     Are you a member of bookshare.org?
>
> They have lots of books on Web design including many titles covering 
> various
> Web programming languages and techniques. For further information visit:
> http://www.bookshare.org
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Wolfe" <sunspot005 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] introduction
>
>
> Chris,
>
>
>     Thanks for the speedy welcome on this e-mail list. What would be
> better than an e-mail list is a forum. Uh, got any tips on learning
> all of the languages that you know being blind? Mine are that you have
> to be extremely patient being blind than a normal programmer. There
> are things that we can do though to be able to make the page more
> visual just takes more time with learning more code. I've currently
> got like three e-books from O'Reilly publishing and plan to wait for
> the html 5 and css 2.1 books next ear. My other thing is my adobe
> reader acts up with it's big document and freezes if I leave the page.
> Got any ideas on how to fix that specific problem?
>     Well, thanks for ll of the information man. Sorry that your bitter
> about yu know all of that stuff you have to go into as a programmer.
> Maybe a database administrator is better? My friend Andy works in
> Washington D.C as a defense database admin and seems to be getting
> along quite well. Moreover, I wish to eventually make my game into a
> software and use it as a plugin in your browser. Looking for assistant
> webmasters and volunteers too!
>
> On 10/23/09, Chris Westbrook <westbchris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Welcome, Peter.  I don't post much to this list, I don't actually do any
>> NFB
>> work at the moment, but I am a web developer at an ad agency.  I think
>> design work is a challenge all web developers face, blind or sighted, but
>> I
>> think blindness creates even more challenges in this area.  It is
>> extremely
>> hard for a blind person to understand where things are laid out on the
>> screen and what size certain things should be in relation to other things
>> on
>> the page because, well, we can't see the screen.  Yes, we can go to a
>> sighted person and get feedback and attempt to adjust our pages to match
>> their feedback, but it is my experience that this takes a lot longer than
>> having a sighted person do the markup and look at it instantly.  It has
>> been
>> decided at my department by new management to remove me from design work
>> as
>> much as possible and have me focus on back end and JavaScript programming
>> and be given templates to use with the necessary fields and tables for 
>> the
>> project already included.  Frankly, I hate design work.  I think most of
>> you
>> develop for a blindness only or primarily blind clientele, so you are not
>> aware of how hard it is to design for the sighted.  I'm not even talking
>> about flash, etc., I'm talking about pure html and css.  I believe this 
>> is
>> why the national office has made templates for all affiliates to use, and
>> I
>> would be willing to bet they were made by sighted people.  As an aside, I
>> hope your learning of JavaScript includes jquery, which has taken the
>> JavaScript world by storm.  Microsoft is even including it in their 
>> latest
>> asp.net framework.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Wolfe" <sunspot005 at gmail.com>
>> To: <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:18 AM
>> Subject: [Nfb-web] introduction
>>
>>
>> To NFB webmasters,
>>
>>
>>     My name is Peter, who is a amateur web programming working on my
>> new site found below at my signature. Currently working on learning
>> java script just got to look back over hyper text markup language and
>> cascading style sheets as I’ve been busy in classes too. If you have
>> any advice about your first viewing of my site that would be
>> appreciated. What are some common challenges that all of you as blind
>> website programmers face? My biggest challenge is too convey visual
>> affects in the right size and shape in that specific area to be
>> visually appealing to users on all platforms using different specs
>> with different sproviders and hardware/software functionality. My
>> project is to one day to make a free persistant browser based game for
>> the blind and sighted to play for free! If you have any resources you
>> can give me in any helfpful way they will all be appreciated. Thanks
>> for all of the help to  this novice.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>> Webmaster
>> http://www.darkstruggle.com
>> webmaster at darkstruggle.com
>> alternative e-mail
>> sunspot005 at gmail.com
>>
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>
> --
> Peter
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-- 
Peter
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http://www.darkstruggle.com
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