On 06/04/16 16:28, Mike Ray wrote: > 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? > > '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 was "triggered" by your phrase :-) I trained as a Biologist and remember doing the lab session about galvanic response of frog's gastrocnemius muscle using so-called "pithed" frogs (with their heads cut off, and spinal cord destroyed). Biologists can be nasty. > I love markdown and use the reference style links all the time. In that case I'll continue doing what I have been doing. > I've also just started using 'kramdown' which is markdown plus a lovely > table syntax. It's written in Ruby. Interesting. Markdown and Pandoc tables are not very usable I reckon. I used to use Asciidoc a lot and its table markup is better. > I used one of your sed tricks this morning...sed -ne '/^xxx/,$p'. Very > handy. There's a lot in sed that is worth knowing about but is a bit hidden or poorly explained. Glad you're finding the series useful. Dave _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
