[Nfb-web] WordPress Help

[Michael Hansen]

Thomas,

Would you be willing to formally write out a few paragraphs on to make
maintaining content with / administrating Wordpress more accessible to
the blind. I would like to put it on the web masters website so that
we have it for reference later.   Please include a few note about what
versions you know that these tips work with.

Colaboration is what this group is all about.

Thanks
Mike
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Mike Hansen



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Stivers <thomas.stivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ---
> Mike Hansen
> NFB of Nebraska
>
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