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Re: Tutorials on Dreamweaver and blind users

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Jan 20, 2011 4:15PM

Dreamweaver has a feature that if you type </ it will automagically
end what ever tag is open. to turn off this feature

edit | preferences | code hints

see the section on "close tags"
your options are
after typing </
after typing the open tags ">"
never

hope that helps.

Jim

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:57 PM, 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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