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#1 2007-04-11 15:05:06

Peter Mount
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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Textpattern sites in screen readers and with web standards

Hi

I’m planning to use Textpattern to put up a blog this weekend. How does Textpattern go with accessibility including seeing sites in screen readers like Lynx?

I often visit one Textpattern site and that seems to work well in Lynx.

I plan to use the strict doctype. Does Textpattern cause any validation problems at all? If it does are they easy to fix.

Thanks

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#2 2007-04-11 17:21:19

ruud
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Re: Textpattern sites in screen readers and with web standards

If Textpattern causes validation problems, that’s probably a bug (report them if you find any!).
I’m using a strict xhtml doctype on a textpattern based website and have no problems passing w3c validator checks.

Textpattern doesn’t stop you from making a page that is also accessible in Lynx. I think that depends more on the templates your create than on Textpattern itself.

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#3 2007-04-11 17:38:17

maniqui
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Re: Textpattern sites in screen readers and with web standards

Textpattern is like a clean and empty canvas. Much of what you can achieve is up to you.


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#4 2007-04-11 21:59:48

Peter Mount
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Re: Textpattern sites in screen readers and with web standards

Thanks for the replies

I’m glad to hear it works well with that.

Have fun

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#5 2007-04-11 23:34:53

jm
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Re: Textpattern sites in screen readers and with web standards

maniqui wrote:

Textpattern is like a clean and empty canvas. Much of what you can achieve is up to you.

Exactly!

PS: Lynx is a text-only browser ;).

Last edited by jm (2007-04-11 23:35:51)

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