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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 10, 2012 8:05PM

DreamWeaver is fairly useless when it comes to the main code editor.
I mean useless in the sense that Jaws at least (and Adobe seems to
indicate Dreamweaver is most accessible with Jaws), does not indicate
any formatting of text, such as lists, headers, links or anything
else. It all just looks like plain text in the editor window, with
absolutely on indocation that one is special format.
If i use it, I have to go into code view to see what tags I am using
exactly, and often correct things like list tags there. So the design
view of DreamWeaver ends up being really just a fancy word processor
with a spell checker.
For the price tag, DreamWeaver does not do anything special for
accessibility that a free text editor can't do as well.
For debugging Javascript and more complex things, Dreamweaver can be
very useful, but I have used Visual Studio, since I am fortunate
enough to have it.
The only thing that I have found which might be promising (I have to
explore it more myself) is accessible Wordpress (I can repost the page
that includes accessibility settings for Wordpress, but I posted it a
few weeks ago on a different thread).
I believe for someone who is not into coding, but wants to create
his/her own web page, this might be the way to go about it.

Cheers
-B

On 5/11/12, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Personally I use BX from
> http://dlee.org
> and EdSharp from
> http://empowermentzone.com/EdSharp.htm
> That's about it really. Plus the system calculator sometimes for fine tuning
>
> percentages.
>
> I've found that code generator applications often introduce so many
> accessibility issues and unnecessary filler code that must be manually
> edited, that it's far simpler to just write the code and save the time.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Bailey" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:05 PM
> Subject: [WebAIM] web development tool for screen reader user?
>
>
>> I'm looking for recommendations for a web development tool for use by a
>> person who is blind and a screen-reader user. The person would like to
>> create web sites independently.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> James
>>
>> --
>>
>> James Bailey M.S.
>> Adaptive Tech Coordinator
>> University of Oregon
>>
>>
>> >> >> >>
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> > > >