[Nfb-web] Kudos to Missouri

[Gary Wunder]

Michael, are you considering being on the conference tomorrow afternoon?
Your comments would be most helpful.



-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Baldwin
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:35 AM
To: 'NFB Webmaster's List'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Kudos to Missouri

Hi,
I recently joined this list, I have a few websites and such. I was going to
write an intro, but I thought I would say hi in this message. I do php and
MySQL stuff. I can do a little html and .css, but I prefer to hire most of
that out. I need to start learning more though.

I have been using word press for a few years now, and I update my own
content and stuff.  
I install the Ozh admin drop down menu plugin. This makes the admin menus
easier to navigate for me, it expands all the menus, so you know what you
have to work with.
In the profile for the users that will be posting, I   Disable the visual
editor when writing.
There is a screen options button on many screens, this allows you to remove
stuff from screens you might not want to worry about. In the add new post
area, I change it to use a 1 column layout. Jaws seems to navigate it better
for me. The options usually appear above the screen options link you entered
on.
I find it easier to write my post in notepad, and add in any extra html tags
that might be needed.
Otherwise, it is probably best to add your tags first, then go in to the
post box, and insert the text between the tags. So if you want something
bold, type until you get to that point, get out of forms mode and find the b
button for bolding, enter on this button twice. Once for the opening tag,
and the second time to put the closing tag. Go back to the post edit box and
find the tags, for bold it would be <strong></strong>. Between the <> enter
your text. Note: there are less than, greater than, and a slash in the html
tags above, encase your punctuation reading is off.

Hope that helps you out some.

Michael



-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gary Wunder
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 8:14
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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