accessible web-authoring system

Bob Elzer bob.elzer at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 18:59:54 MST 2017


I did not know about bluefish, thanks for that tip.

On Apr 28, 2017 10:57 PM, "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> I don't understand the question.
>
> Is the OP looking for a web-authoring software that can be operated by
> a blind person, or is he looking for a web authoring software that
> produces web pages readable by blind people?
>
> Either way, I have a feeling Bluefish might be a good way to go. I
> imagine the text you type could be read by a screen reader. I'm less
> sure whether the little helpful popups with tag syntax could be read by
> a screen reader.
>
> I've been using Bluefish about 5 years, ever since my last WYSIWYG HTML
> authoring tool went bad. I'd never go back to WYSIWYG because now I'm
> in charge of my HTML, I make clean HTML, and I even check that it's
> well formed XML before putting it on the web. My stuff renders pretty
> much the same on all full featured browsers. As I remember, every time
> I put in an <img> tag, Bluefish asks me for an alt property.
>
> HTH,
>
> SteveT
>
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:08:06 +0000 (UTC)
> "der.hans" <PLUGd at LuftHans.com> wrote:
>
> > Am 28. Apr, 2017 schwätzte Eric Oyen so:
> >
> > moin moin Eric,
> >
> > please pass the message along. I'm personally interested in knowing
> > about an accessible content management system in addition to knowing
> > someone with a specific need.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
> > > mind if I forward this over to the Blinux Redhat list?
> > >
> > > -eric
> > > from the central office of the Technomage Guild, random thoughts
> > > Dept.
> > >
> > > On Apr 28, 2017, at 12:32 PM, der.hans wrote:
> > >
> > >> moin moin,
> > >>
> > >> anyone have experience with an accessible Free Software
> > >> web-authoring system?
> > >>
> > >> A friend works in accessibiilty ( all sorts of physical and mental
> > >> handicaps ) and is asking for a recommendation.
> > >>
> > >> I presume Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress have plugins to help, but
> > >> I have no experience. The closest thing I have to experience is
> > >> demos from some blind guys using emacs for their own
> > >> infrastructure. Amazing, but not the first thing to suggest.
> > >>
> > >> ciao,
> > >>
> > >> der.hans
> > >> --
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