[Trainer-Talk] Accessibility of Online Blogging Sites question

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Dear Humberto,
I think there's a lot of sites using WordPress. Blind Bargains, I think
AT Guys, SeroTek, SeroTek satlitte sites like tripleclick home, their
android show site, our company site is Wordpress.... I'd be suprised if
most of the non-proifts for the blind aren't running wordpress as a
content management system. I bet part of AppleVis is wordpress for that
matter or wouldn't be surpised if it was. From past lookups some
WordPress themes, which create the look and feel of the site, are
accessible and some aren't but there are several that are documented as
such. I manage our wordpress for our company and there's very  little
weird AJAX or any hot refreshable components on the back end that I
think would bother a screen-reader user. And as I mentioned those sites
above are primarily managed and ran by Blind folks. I'd be inclined to
say blogger would work as well, Google's been making pretty big strides
in the accessibility... but like you said I don't know. If he or she
want's something turn key then blogger or using the actual wordpress.com
hosting might be easiest.
-David


On 12/19/2016 2:33 AM, Humberto Avila via Trainer-Talk wrote:
>    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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