[Hudlug] created a web page

Tue Sep 19 14:56:26 BST 2006

Michael, Glad to hear you are making progress, and working with Matt Lee will certainly be of interest. When you talk about getting into programming, what sort of thing were you thinking of?

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICHAEL WEAVER [mailto:michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com] 
> Sent: 18 September 2006 17:04
> To: HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Hudlug] created a web page
> 
> 
> 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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