# Accessible Web Design Software

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2013 17:31:40

Hi, all.
Was wondering if you could recommend an accessible web platform. Thanks.

## Post 2 by Ed_G (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 10-Oct-2013 16:11:31

Hi,
There's no truly accessible WYSIWYG editor I'm afraid. ASpects of them are, but to be honest you may be just as well coding in a text editor.
If you're asking about CMSs, then you may have better luck there as some of those are accessible.

## Post 3 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 11-Oct-2013 14:58:16

Has anyone ever used www.siterightnow.com? If so, how do you creat links on the same page?

## Post 4 by Ed_G (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 11-Oct-2013 16:16:21

No sorry. I can tell you how to code it though if that's of interest.

## Post 5 by Striker (Consider your self warned, i'm creative and offensive like handicap porn.) on Friday, 11-Oct-2013 17:39:16

agree completely with what's been written here. Unless you're using a CMS, just do it by hand.
You'll get cleaner code, anyway.

## Post 6 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 11-Oct-2013 23:42:27

Ah, What are some good resources for learning HTmL?

## Post 7 by brandonmcginty (Generic Zoner) on Saturday, 12-Oct-2013 0:00:32

w3schools gets bashed, but I remember learning some good introductions from there.
www.w3schools.com/html/
Search for the first heading level 1 on that page; there are navigation links directly below that heading, and the tutorial follows.
If you're more of a headfirst type, go to google or any other website, or heck, look at the sources for these pages.
You can just use "view source" in IE or Firefox; it should be in your view menu for FF.
If you run into snags, give a shout, and I'll see if I can give examples or other tutorials.

## Post 8 by Ed_G (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 12-Oct-2013 5:49:53

Depending on how much you want to do with your site, you may quickly discover that screen reader support for web designers is scandalously lacking. If you take JAWS for instance, it won't recognise that you can currently restart heading level numbers in HTML 5 on the same page and consequently misreports the levels, and the amount of colours it knows when reading font/attribute information is extremely limited meaning that it's wrong half the time. It also won't tell you anything about borders or margins you may have elected to put on your page. I know the market for blind web designers is even smaller than the market for screen reader users, but I would have thought that one of the screen reader manufacturers would have made an effort. To be fair, JAWS is one of the worst in this area.

## Post 9 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 14-Oct-2013 0:45:41

Brandon,
Thanks a lot.

## Post 10 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 14-Oct-2013 11:44:30

Also consider your editor.
People say Notepad and I don't know why.
Get a real lightweight developers' tool like Textpad or NoteTab or something. In those you can create workspaces for your projects, attach external tools you can use for validation, even view the current project in a web browser. Textpad even has a ton of macros for inserting html tags automatically, saving you time. Time saving is everything when programming, so I'm sure it probably is for web people as well.
Also regular expressiongs, find in files (not just the current file), etc. etc. things software developers take for granted that aren't wizards but are a lot more than just Notepad.
Plus you can have no end of file markers, or you can save the file to Unix format or whatever you need depending on where you are hosting. All things to consider, and Textpad is $15, but probably similar applicatins are for a similar price.
Also embedded in these types of editors are macros you can use with your source control. Surely you web people use source control? I could not do my job without it as a developer. All things to consider.