[Trainer-Talk] Accessibility of Online Blogging Sites question

[Humberto Avila]

    Hello all,

I write this quick email to seek your input on the state of 
accessibility of any major online blogging platforms, such as Google 
Blogger, WordPress, ETC.

My significant other who is totally blind is interested in creating a 
blog and I would love to teach her how to use any site(s) that we can 
use, provided it is accessible with either JAWS, NVDA and / or voice over.

I have looked on the google Accessibility page at 
http://www.google.com/accessibility, but alas, amongst all the other 
products and services mentioned there, Blogger is not listed there which 
makes me kind of eerie when it comes to actually trying it out of myself 
because I already use Gmail and a myriad of other google products so I 
can just get grandfathered in and sign up quickly.

As per WordPress, I have heard some complaints especially on the 
www.applevis.com <http://www.applevis.com> site for users of accessible 
Apple products about unlabeled buttons in its app or how the website is 
structured. Voiceover is her primary screen reader on her iPad and the 
accessibility with voiceover should be crucial, although she can use a 
computer with NVDA as well.

If anyone in this list has at least some experience with using these 
blogging platforms to successfully (1) create and edit blog posts, (2) 
maintain a blog and see user interests, (3) make text and items visually 
readable for sighted folks, and (4) use an equivalent mobile application 
for iOS that can do options 1 through 3 above, please come forward and 
share them. Any input, ideas, suggestions, perceptions, and perspectives 
are welcome. If there are other, lesser known but more accessible 
blogging platforms that can be usable with both NVDA and Voiceover, 
please let me know also and will be happy to relay this information.

Best regards,

Humberto



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