On 06/04/2016 16:09, Dave Morriss wrote: > On 06/04/16 13:45, Mike Ray wrote: >> Hello folks. >> >> I just wanted to point out a little thing about how to make HTML show >> notes more accessible to blind folks like me. >> >> When you're linking to something in your notes, like the previous >> episode in your series, please consider the method most screen-reader >> users use to navigate between links. >> >> All of the readers I have come across have a navigation key dedicated to >> stepping through varieties of landmarks in an HTML page. For example >> the 'l' key to jump from link to link or the 'h' key to jump between >> headers. >> >> So, when using the keypress method of jumping from one link to the next >> it is very poor practice to, for example, make only the word 'here' a >> link in the middle of a sentence like 'Find the notes for episode N here'. >> >> If there are multiple links on a page of that kind then repeated presses >> of 'l' will just make the screen-reader say 'here, here, here, here, >> here' as you go from link to link. >> >> So, we then have to look at the surrounding text to identify what the >> link is. >> >> Likewise, if your notes contain the actual text 'http:// ... etc ... ' >> after words which say what it is, we just get a Web address and it's not >> always obvious what it is. >> >> Better to make the whole of the 'find episode 1 of galvanic frogs leg >> spasm here' a hyperlink. >> >> Here endeth the lesson on the third Wednesday after muck spreading. > > Thanks Mike, that's very informative. > > I use Markdown for my notes (which I process with Pandoc, which give me > a few extra features). I generate links in the text by using references > such as: > > In the [last episode][2] we looked at > > This refers to reference 2 which is defined as: > > [2]: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1986 "Introduction to sed - > part 2" > > The result is that the hyperlink is the text "last episode" but there's > also a title attribute of "Introduction to sed - part 2". > > I had assumed that that generated the most informative result. > > I also use what has come to be the HPR standard of making lists and a > link section where the hyperlink is the URL itself, preceded by text > explaining what it is. > > I'm slightly dismayed to find that this is not ideal. I even have > scripts that generate it! > > By the way, how did you know I was planning an episode about galvanic > frog's leg spasms? > > Dave >
'Galvanic frogs leg spasm' is a phrase that appears in 'Count Zero', book 2 of William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy. I have just got into the habit of using it when I need a chunk of meaningless text. I love markdown and use the reference style links all the time. I've also just started using 'kramdown' which is markdown plus a lovely table syntax. It's written in Ruby. I used one of your sed tricks this morning...sed -ne '/^xxx/,$p'. Very handy. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Eyes-free Linux: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
