[Hudlug] created a web page
MICHAEL WEAVER
michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 18 17:04:03 BST 2006
Hi tim!
Ben and others have helped me get Ubuntu working on my laptop.
I was trying to run Gnopernicus but it seems the team that worked on
that project have merged with the team who have designed Orca which is a
more powerful screenreader because of its ability to be scripted if you
know Python and they seem to bring out a new release every month.
I managed to get a numeric keypad for my laptop which Lindsay ordered
through E-bay so I can use the Orca keystrokes.
As I told Ben I am using MS Word to write pages at the moment only
because I don't have Ubuntu or another Linux distro on my desktop but I
think Ben may be coming to my home at some point to try and get me up
and running with it.
Tim Schofield wrote:
> Michael, I havent been following this mailing list for a while, so I am not sure how you have been progressing with linux. I take it that as you used MS word for your web site, that you haven't got a screen reader to meet your needs on linux yet?
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MICHAEL WEAVER [mailto:michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com]
>> Sent: 18 September 2006 13:48
>> To: HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [Hudlug] created a web page
>>
>>
>> I forgot something in my replies to this message.
>> I look forward to doing some programming in Linux.
>> I tried VB and it was Terrible.
>> I kind of did it as a unit at Dewsbury College.
>> Charlie my Learning Assistant and me found we had to get the exact
>> layout otherwise it refused to accept an instruction ie you
>> had to get
>> right the correct spacing for a condition and laying out the screen
>> before you do your code is a pain.
>>
>> Ben Fowler wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/09/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I now have a presence on the web.
>>>>
>>> Michael, it is good, it is very good.
>>>
>>> Indeed why bother with Linux if you can do all that in Word!
>>>
>>> Next time we meet, could you go over the steps you carry
>>>
>> out to create
>>
>>> and/or update a web page using your chosen Windows tools. I
>>>
>> would very
>>
>>> much like to be able to be set up the same workflow under Linux. I
>>> will freely admit that I cannot see any way of doing this
>>>
>> that is as
>>
>>> easy as I would like.
>>>
>>> You are very welcome to put some pages on the Birstall and Howden
>>> Clough site if this suits you. We ought to be thinking about blogs
>>> (exempli gratia Wordpress http://wordpress.org/about/ ) for
>>>
>> B&HC LUG.
>>
>>> I have viewed yoiur site in MacLynx, and would make these
>>>
>> suggestions
>>
>>> and comments:
>>>
>>> * Main Page
>>>
>>> MICHAELS WEB SITE could be MICHAEL'S WEB SITE
>>> web site hosting could be web page creation/writing
>>>
>>> You needn't have mentioned that you are blind. It is not
>>>
>> obvious from
>>
>>> anything that has gone before; and I would add that your
>>>
>> breaking up
>>
>>> the text into paragraphs (which blind people often do not
>>>
>> do), tends
>>
>>> to indicate that you are happy to come across as an
>>>
>> individual rather
>>
>>> than a blind individual. But that is up to you. Could you
>>>
>> say what you
>>
>>> want to about purely visual content worded in such a way as
>>>
>> would not
>>
>>> need any comment about blindness...
>>>
>>> I am not sure that you have the mailto: link quite right, but using
>>> Lynx as I am, I am not suggesting anything wrong with it.
>>>
>> The "About"
>>
>>> link is fine, but you may have misplaced the tags in the link to
>>> HUDLUG.
>>>
>>> See http://www.eklhad.net/cli.html and
>>> http://www.blind.state.ia.us/ASSIST/chong-bio.htm for
>>>
>> examples of high
>>
>>> quality sites. I thought that I had a couple of slightly more
>>> pertinent examples - these are more objectives to aim at
>>>
>> rather than
>>
>>> targets that can be easily met - but I can't seem to find them.
>>>
>>> * About Me
>>>
>>> I would not state my correct age on a web site. Do you mean
>>>
>> to update
>>
>>> it? You could say: "I am a child of the Thatcher era" (if you feel
>>> that you are); or "I was born in the same year that Adrian
>>>
>> Mole turned
>>
>>> 15 and 1/4". Again there is no need to give quite as much detail
>>> (unless you want to, or find it helpful) at this stage: "... I was
>>> born with a condition in which the fluid in my eyes was
>>>
>> solid, but I
>>
>>> don't notice it much. I spent most of my childhood at
>>>
>> Boarding School
>>
>>> and later at College." - but it is up to you.
>>>
>>> You might want to capitalise Assistants, or even clarify by
>>>
>> saying ...
>>
>>> the Actresses who played the parts of his assistants ..., and it is
>>> Somerset.
>>>
>>> distrobution => distribution, but we do say "distro" don't we?
>>>
>>> I hope that the Radio side of things goes well, and we must get you
>>> started with some Linux programming.
>>>
>>> I mean what I say when I claim that I do not yet know of a Free
>>> Software tool chain that can do what you have done, and this needs
>>> looking into.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
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