Doug Lawlor's Blog

As a blind person, this is the main process I go about posting to douglawlor.com using BlogJet as my main editor and using Word Press as my blogging platform. I would appreciate any constructive comments regarding how others go about performing this process.

Using BlogJet I will compose my post and do a spell check to clean up any mistakes.

• Next I will Save it as a draft post by choosing “Post as draft” from the blog menu. This puts a draft post on the server.
• Next log into your dashboard and use your screen reader’s heading navigation key, usually the letter h on your keyboard, to navigate to the heading entitled ”Recent Drafts”.

  • • From here you can navigate to the post you want to work with by arrowing to the post with the up and down arrow keys and pressing enter on the post to open it.

    • Here you will be presented with the post editing screen. Use your screen reader’s heading navigation key to navigate to the heading entitled “Post Tags”. Press the down arrow key once and you should land in an edit box where you can type the tags you want your post to have separating them with commas. Ex: “Accessibility, Blogging, Posting, Word press”. Press the tab key and you will land on the “Add” button. Press the space bar on this and the tags you typed in the edit box above will be added to your post.

    • To add categories just navigate to the “Categories” heading using your screen reader’s heading key and use your arrow keys to explore this section of the edit window. The first thing you will see are two links entitled “All categories” and “Most Used. Clicking on the “All Categories” link will give you a list of all of the categories you have defined with check boxes next to them for selecting or de-selecting them. Use the space bar key to check or un-check these boxes. Clicking on the “Most Used” link will give you the same thing, except you will get a list of the most used categories as defined by Word Press. You can add a new category by navigating to the “+ Add New Category” heading and pressing the enter key to expand it. Navigate back to the “+ Add New Category” heading and press the down arrow key. Now you are placed in an edit box where you can type the name of a new category. Pressing the tab key will place you on a combo box or drop down list where you can select the parent that this category should be placed under. You can leave this at the default if you wish. Pressing the tab key again places you on the “Add” button. Pressing the space bar here will add the new category you typed in above. Now, if you wish, navigate back to the “+ Add New Category” heading and press the enter key again to collapse this box. When you have all of your categories added you can now navigate back to the “Categories” heading where you can see your new categories with check boxes next to them for selecting or de-selecting them.

     

     Down arrowing passed the “+ Add New Category” box you will enter an edit box containing the title of your post. If you did not enter a title in BlogJet you can fill it in here. Navigate to the top of the editing page and press the publish button.

• There you have it in a nutshell. Again, I would appreciate any constructive comments from others who have to work with Word Press as a blog platform or content management system.

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