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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 20, 2011 2:18PM

Keith

Please keep me in the loop.
I am in the same situation.
I just purchased a student copy of DreamWeaver and am trying to figure it out.
I have the disappearing text issue myself with Jaws 12 on Windows 7,
arrowing up and down a few times seems to bring it back.
I am also very annoyed that the formatting does not show up in the
WYSIWYG window (lists, headings, links etc).
It would be very convenient, when reading over your text in the
designer window to know what is a link and what isn´t.
Agreed on the lack of non-visual tutorial for using DreamWeaver.
I can start taking notes and we can may be get some preliminary things
together, there are also some notes on Adobe's accessibility web site
for DreamWeaver, though not extensive.
I have heard that DW's "clean Word thml" works very well, though I
have yet to test it. I know Word HTML output is notoriously bad.
If that is a way to go, perhaps I could use Word to create my
documents and then clean them up and manually add necessary tags in
DW.
Thanks
-Birkir


On 1/20/11, Keith (mteye) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Does anybody here know of an online tutorial to help a blind person learn
> how to write html using Dreamweaver?
>
> I've found plenty on line that are full of point and click technology. The
> Dreamweaver help file is chock full of good info, but again is geared to
> point and click, and using inspector frames.
>
> What's the secret for someone who's hand to eye coordination is broke? Is
> there a way to access that darned inspector screen? What are some work
> arounds in the menu system for finding a real dialog box to input
> attributes?
>
> Is it just me, or is it normal for text to suddenly disappear in the design
> view with no apparent explanation?
>
> I've also noticed a weird quirk where my closing tags that I include in the
> code view somehow get entered redundantly, sort of.
>
> For example:
>
> <p>Paragraph goes here.</p>
>
> Comes out as:
>
> <p>Paragraph goes here.</p> p>
>
> Hmm... maybe I'm just hacking away too fast and don't notice an auto close
> on the tag, but I wish it wouldn't do that.
>
> BTW. Hi Andrew. Thought I'd let you off the hook from my annoying questions.
>
> Just for some background: I've been playing with html since 1999, mostly
> with notepad, or some other basic text editors. I just thought I'd try to
> expand my knowledge, and try to automate things with Dreamweaver. A decent
> product, but I'm just climbing the learning curve, and trying to figure out
> the blind guy translations from mouse click to keyboard command.
>
> best regards,
> Keith H.
>
>
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