[Nfb-web] Kudos to Missouri

[Thomas Stivers]

I have a few suggestions. If you or someone in your affiliate has knowledge 
of, or is willing to learn, basic html markup then check the "disable the 
visual editor when writing" checkbox. This checkbox is located on the 
profile page for each user. This will make the text box you write in a bit 
more predictable. Also the buttons which affect selected text have keyboard 
shortcuts in most cases. I find that I almost never use the buttons, but 
write out the html for the content of posts by hand. Frequently I compose my 
posts and pages in a text editor and then paste the finished product into 
the composition form. This lets me retain the control of writing at least 
the body of the page by hand, but allows me to have the content management 
system handle all the visual effects surrounding the content.

Thomas Stivers
http://nfbtx.org
http://nfbaustin.org

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary Wunder
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 8:14 AM
To: 'NFB Webmaster's List'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Kudos to Missouri

Hi Mike.  Thank you for honorable mention of our website.  We are in
something of a bind because we have paid a gentleman to use WordPress to
make our site more attractive, but we now need help in learning how to
maintain it ourselves.  WordPress seems to suffer from the frailty we've
seen in other web authoring tools.  It relies on selecting text and then
pressing buttons to do whatever one wishes with that text.  For screen
reader users the difficulty is that moving the cursor to find buttons once
the text is selected causes it to become unselected.

A person or two at our webmaster's meeting in July suggested that there are
ways to make WordPress more accessible for those of us needing to manage
content, and so we are hoping to have a class on that if we can.  Until then
Missouri is still reliant on our paid consultant.  He is a very nice man and
likes working with us, but he can't forever be expected to continue our
updates, and we probably can't live with the delay inherent in having all of
our web material updated by one person.

If any of you have ideas you'd like to suggest, Missouri would be more than
happy to have them.  Again, I'm glad for the comments on our website, and I
hope we can take it to a whole new level.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Hansen
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 9:10 PM
To: NFB Webmaster's List
Subject: [Nfb-web] Kudos to Missouri

All,

Sometimes so that I don't get stuck in a rut, I will go and check out
a few other NFB State websites to see how they do things. Well tonight
I wandered over to the NFB of Missouri's website. I thought that it
was both visually attractive and at first glance accessible. It seemed
to be well organized and things were easy to find. If I had to say
anything negative there might have been a couple alt tags missing but
that was it.

Very nice job Missouri I really liked what I saw and will come back
again when we look at reorganizing our sites content.

Check them out at:
http://nfbmo.org/

Mike
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Mike Hansen
NFB of Nebraska

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