Comments on: These Are a Few of my Favourite Themes (and Accessible WordPress Plugins)

By: Jackie McBride

Jackie McBride — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:40:14 +0000

Tim:

Actually the self-hosted site is wordpress.com, as opposed to wordpress.org.

The CKEditor plugin for WordPress is also pretty accessible (w/accessibility intentionally built in). It actually replaces tiny MCE, &, while it mucks up sometimes, overall it’s quite good,allowing sighted folks to have their visual editor while we have our accessibility. If you’ve got sighted clients but occasionally need to use the editor on their site, this 1′s for u! I don’t know how well it works w/any markdown plugins. I’ve actually thought about trying that so I might just take that markdown extra plug for a spin after I’m done here.

Nice article overall–thanks.

By: Kevin Reeves

Kevin Reeves — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:24:18 +0000

Great article. I’ll definitely be checking into the Thesis theme. I really need something that is menu driven to make theme edits. Also, another way to add pages and posts to wordpress sites is via the use of desktop editors. For mac users, 2 really come to mind. Mac Journal, and Mars Edit. Mars edit let’s you actually add posts and pages, also allowing you to add hyper links, headers, lists, etc without any coding knowledge. I use it all the time and totally recommend it. Thanks again for this awesome article, and keep up the great work.

Kevin Reeves

By: Just do it (colorful as my will)

Just do it (colorful as my will) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:54:56 +0000

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By: Tim Noonan

Tim Noonan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:00:24 +0000

Hi Teresa, thanks for your feedback and questions.

Yes it is correct that wordpress admin site is quite involved particularly when using a screen reader.

For me, I’ve found Markdown to be a very useful tool, because of the way that I edit and revise posts. However, it is not for the faint of heart, because it is very particular about spacing, punctuation and spelling. Your best approach might be to write your post in Word or an editor, or using an email interface and then uploading to your site.

Regards
Tim

By: Teresa Blaes

Teresa Blaes — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:33:37 +0000

Tim, I am a word press user, and I am also blind, so I am hoping that some of the plugins that you have listed here will help as I find the wp dash board to be extreemely frustrating to use. My husband uses thesis, and I will have to have him install it on my blog as well. I have never used mark down, is it good for thoes that are not good at code? in any case good post. Thanks for the info, Teresa

By: Wendy Chisholm

Wendy Chisholm — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:38:26 +0000

Tim,

This is a goldmine of helpful information. I look forward to trying some of these plug-ins on my blog.

Also, hi! It’s been a while.

By: Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:32:57 +0000

Thank you so much for this post–a fascinating and extremely helpful read. The theme is a bit out of my price range, but some of the plugins look fantastic–most notably the audio related one and those related to Twitter. A great great post.

By: Praitk patel

Praitk patel — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:11:52 +0000

Excellent post. Thank you for the theme recommendation in particular. I will most certainly have a try of some of the plugins.

By: Jason Castonguay

Jason Castonguay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:35:18 +0000

Thank you so much for this article. Your presentation is very clear and I enjoyed the formatting and navigability as well. It looks like the comment form is different than I’ve seen, but I’m comparing it to my somewhat-still-unconfigured WordPress installation. The poll, by the way, had one choice in particular which I found hard to ignore, so it got submitted.