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From: McMorland, Gabriel
Date: Tue, Aug 06 2013 10:25AM
Subject: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible. I'm hoping that several fully accessible platforms exist, so that I can choose among them to best match my needs.

From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Tue, Aug 06 2013 10:49AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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Gabriel,

I recommend dreamwidth, which can be used as a standalone
blogging platform or as part of the community. I am the
accessibility team co-lead for dreamwidth, and we have an active
team of developers and users maximizing the accessibility of the
platform at all times. Certainly we always have users suggesting
pages that can be made even more accessible, but we also have
developers who focus on nothing other than addressing those
issues.

http://dreamwidth.org/

To create a free account: https://www.dreamwidth.org/create

To follow or contribute to the accessibility components of the
project: http://dw-accessibility.dreamwidth.org/

Deborah Kaplan
Accessibility Team Co-Lead
Dreamwidth Studios

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, McMorland, Gabriel wrote:

> Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible. I'm hoping that several fully accessible platforms exist, so that I can choose among them to best match my needs.
> > > >

From: Léonie Watson
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2013 2:26AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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Gabriel McMorland wrote:
"Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader
accessible."

I use Wordpress to manage a couple of different blogs, using Jaws/NVDA. If
you use the self hosted Wordpress.com version it's helpful if you know some
HTML/PHP, but this isn't so necessary when you use the Wordpress.org
version.

Léonie.

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Gabriel
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Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible.
I'm hoping that several fully accessible platforms exist, so that I can
choose among them to best match my needs.
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From: McMorland, Gabriel C
Date: Thu, Aug 08 2013 8:34AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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Have you found any accessibility issues with Wordpress yet?
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Gabriel McMorland wrote:
"Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible."

I use Wordpress to manage a couple of different blogs, using Jaws/NVDA. If you use the self hosted Wordpress.com version it's helpful if you know some HTML/PHP, but this isn't so necessary when you use the Wordpress.org version.

Léonie.

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Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader accessible blog platforms?

Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible.
I'm hoping that several fully accessible platforms exist, so that I can choose among them to best match my needs.

From: Léonie Watson
Date: Thu, Aug 08 2013 10:27AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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Gabriel McMorland wrote:
"Have you found any accessibility issues with Wordpress yet?"

Of course. I can't think of any platform that doesn't have at least one or
two accessibility challenges.

The only thing I've tried and failed to do is use the drag/drop
functionality for arranging widgets on the page. I tend to code them
straight into the templates instead though.

Setting WordPress up and configuring it was all ok. A friend translated the
creative designs for my blog into HTML/CSS templates, but I integrated them
in to WordPress myself.

I use the HTML editor rather than the WYSIWYG version, and the simple file
uploader rather than the default one when writing posts. Updating WordPress
and the plugins I use is pretty straight forward.

This is a very subjective thing though. I don't mind the odd missing label
on form fields, or having to use some of the advanced features of Jaws/NVDA.
All I can really say is that I use WordPress for what I need without any
great difficulty.

Léonie.

From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Thu, Aug 08 2013 12:19PM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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One of the best places to learn about what's
going on with Wordpress accessibility (both front
and back end), ask questions, and contribute back to it is here:

http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

I believe there are known accessibility issues
with the Administrative interface that people are
working on i.e. dragging and dropping widgets.
There also appear to be issues with the Add Media
panel, based on a quick skim of recent posts.

Good luck.

Jennifer
At 07:34 AM 8/8/2013, you wrote:
>Have you found any accessibility issues with Wordpress yet?
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>[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Léonie Watson
>Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:27 AM
>To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
>
>Gabriel McMorland wrote:
>"Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible."
>
>I use Wordpress to manage a couple of different
>blogs, using Jaws/NVDA. If you use the self
>hosted Wordpress.com version it's helpful if you
>know some HTML/PHP, but this isn't so necessary
>when you use the Wordpress.org version.
>
>Léonie.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of McMorland, Gabriel
>Sent: 06 August 2013 17:25
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>Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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>Please recommend blogging platforms that are fully screen reader accessible.
>I'm hoping that several fully accessible
>platforms exist, so that I can choose among them to best match my needs.
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From: Jacek Zadrożny
Date: Sat, Aug 10 2013 6:59AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible blog platforms?
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W dniu 2013-08-08 18:27, Léonie Watson pisze:
> Gabriel McMorland wrote:
> "Have you found any accessibility issues with Wordpress yet?"
>
> Of course. I can't think of any platform that doesn't have at least one or
> two accessibility challenges.
>
> The only thing I've tried and failed to do is use the drag/drop
> functionality for arranging widgets on the page. I tend to code them
> straight into the templates instead though.
> JZ: Hi, You can enable accessible mode in screen options. Then You can arrange widgets using dropdown lists in edit window. Today i updated my Wordpress to version 3.6 and found, that I can arrange menu items too. In prior versions it was only drag'n'drop.
> Setting WordPress up and configuring it was all ok. A friend translated the
> creative designs for my blog into HTML/CSS templates, but I integrated them
> in to WordPress myself.
>
> I use the HTML editor rather than the WYSIWYG version, and the simple file
> uploader rather than the default one when writing posts. Updating WordPress
> and the plugins I use is pretty straight forward.
> JZ: I tested WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress with NVDA and it is accessible and usable. Try it.
> This is a very subjective thing though. I don't mind the odd missing label
> on form fields, or having to use some of the advanced features of Jaws/NVDA.
> All I can really say is that I use WordPress for what I need without any
> great difficulty.
> JZ: me too. And I se big progress in Wordpress accessibility.
Bye
Jacek