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From: Mike Osborne - AccEase
Date: Wed, May 16 2007 9:00PM
Subject: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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Hi
We are setting up a blog using WordPress. The main contributor has low vision and uses Firefox at high levels of magnification.
I have tried the Editor at this magnification and it is unusable - tiny icons and the right-hand column overlays over the edit area.
Any ideas on how to customise this or replace with a more accessible editor?
Thanks
Mike
From: Wayne Dick
Date: Wed, May 16 2007 9:20PM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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I have style sheets that help. Have
your friend contact me. I have a new
typography that optimizes the space at
very large print.
Wayne
On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:59:38 +1200
"Mike Osborne - AccEase"
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> Hi
> We are setting up a blog using
>WordPress. The main contributor has
>low vision and uses Firefox at high
>levels of magnification.
>
> I have tried the Editor at this
>magnification and it is unusable -
>tiny icons and the right-hand column
>overlays over the edit area.
>
> Any ideas on how to customise this
>or replace with a more accessible
>editor?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
From: Jared Smith
Date: Wed, May 16 2007 9:30PM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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On 5/16/07, Wayne Dick < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I have style sheets that help. Have
> your friend contact me. I have a new
> typography that optimizes the space at
> very large print.
I'm sure there are others out there that would benefit from these. If
possible, could you post them publicly. I'd be happy to post them on
the WebAIM site with full credit, of course, if you'd like. Or at
least send them to someone on the Wordpress development team - they
realize that their biggest issues are in the administrative interface
and any resources that can help them would be appreciated.
Jared Smith
WebAIM
From: Tim Beadle
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 2:30AM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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On 17/05/07, Jared Smith < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I'm sure there are others out there that would benefit from these. If
> possible, could you post them publicly. I'd be happy to post them on
> the WebAIM site with full credit, of course, if you'd like. Or at
> least send them to someone on the Wordpress development team - they
> realize that their biggest issues are in the administrative interface
> and any resources that can help them would be appreciated.
Also, could the modifications be bundled up into a Wordpress plugin,
in a similar way to the OS X Tiger-style admin interface for
Wordpress?
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
Tim
From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 6:40AM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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On 17/05/07, Mike Osborne - AccEase < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi
> We are setting up a blog using WordPress. The main contributor has low vision and uses Firefox at high levels of magnification.
>
> I have tried the Editor at this magnification and it is unusable - tiny icons and the right-hand column overlays over the edit area.
>
> Any ideas on how to customise this or replace with a more accessible editor?
Mike,
On a temporary basis, you could try disabling the rich text editor for
him. YOu'll still get the overlapping of the buttons on the right, but
the buttons you need then grow. You don't have to know HTML to use it,
as the buttons put it in for you.
Alternatively IE 7 enlarges everything (even the buttons on the rich
text editor), and doesn't overlap with the right hand side. The
drawback is that you have to scroll sidewards.
Opera isn't quite as good, as though the buttons increase, in an
attempt to stop you scrolling sidewards, puts the text box under the
links at the right, which is probably even more difficult than the
weird thing that Firefox does.
--
Blog: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/
From: Wayne Dick
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 10:50AM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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Well, here goes.
These styles were just made for me. I thought the world would pass me
up quickly so I didn't distribute them. They are 2 part: deconstruction
and re-style. The deconstruction returns the page to HTML 4 default.
The re-style adds my preferences.
Originally, I tried to stick to the author's style with as little
intervention as possible. They one day I realized that I live in a
different world, and normal typography doesn't work for me. I realized
that fully sighted authors cannot understand the reality of reading with
modified print. For example, why zoom everything by the same factor? I
actually make headings a little smaller. Their main use is navigation.
Anyway I'm attaching my Firefox userContent.css. The easiest way to see
it work is to use the Illinois Accessibility Toolbar and set the user
style sheet to this style. You can also place it in the Firefox Chrome
folder, but that is only if you want it to be your default style - my
personal choice, but not advised for fully sighted.
I have written about the sheet in a little web site of mine on IT
Accessibility. The whole article might wear you out, but the example
explains the main typography of the style sheet.
http://www.csulb.edu/~wed/ITAcc/ITAcc.html
<http://www.csulb.edu/%7Ewed/ITAcc/ITAcc.html>;
I haven't written a UI to customize style sheets for each user. That is
needed. The style sheet doesn't work best for legally blind. The
optimal crowd is low vision with visual acuity worse than 20/60 and
better than 20/200.
Somethings don't work well. If a layout table has a lot of columns it
won't fit on the screen. My compromise is that the columns do fit. So,
reading of a column does not need horizontal scrolling, but changing
columns does. Some Java Script come out very bizarre. Page down
doesn't always work in Firefox. You have to be pointing at non-link
text to get the page down key to work. That is a Firefox performance
problem, but its a big deal in large print.
Wayne
Wayne Dick PhD
Chair Computer Engineering and Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
Academic Technology Accessibility Coordinator
California State University System
From: Charge D Wise
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 8:30PM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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Has the contributor tried Opera or IE 7 zoom instead of Firefox's resize
text?
Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP FrontPage
http://by-expression.com
http://starttoweb.com
Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond
From: Charge D Wise
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 8:40PM
Subject: Re: WordPress Editor for Low Vision User
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I'm sure Matt and the other team members would be interested.
Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP FrontPage
http://by-expression.com
http://starttoweb.com
Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond