[stylist] Websites and Book Covers

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

My husband, who has RP, initially studied computer science at university
years ago then switched to psychology thinking a blind person wouldn't
have much of a future in the computer field. Fast-forward 14 years
later, and thank God his attitude has changed, and he's going back to
school to finally study what he always wanted to study. He's actually
getting geared up to start in September. I know a lot of other blind
people are in this field of computers and websites, and in many ways,
it's getting easier in terms of accessibility.

You may know this, but the NFB has a computer science and information
systems division. The president use to be Curtis Chong, but I'm not sure
if he still is or not.

And the Writers' division has a new webmaster who's building the
division a new website, and she's blind.

That's the great thing about this organization: you meet people doing so
many things that encourage you to reach for your dreams and goals.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of April
Brown
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 2:30 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] Websites and Book Covers


Hi Bridgit Pollpeter,

     I used to enjoy building websites.  Simple ones, mainly.  I wasn't
very good at finding customers.  I had a nice one for my web design, my
arts and crafts, and even my early days of writing.  Learning HTML was
challenge I enjoyed.  At the time, my memory loss was traumatic, and
somehow, learning HTML helped me in more ways than one.  Not sure how
good I'll be designing websites, if my vision loss continues.

Hi Justin Williams,

      When I was learning to build sites, I went to W3schools site to
learn. They have an accessibility checker.  I guarantee it misses
somethings. However, I make every effort I can to make my sites
accessible.  Since they are now Google pages, I don't have as much
control over some aspects as if I was designing them elsewhere.
However, I also have less HTML coding to do.

April Brown

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.
aprilbrownwrite at gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/aprilbrownwrites/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AprilBrownWrite
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