Hi Thomas,
I don't know what kind of wordpress you are using, but standard wordpress
installations have a heading for the page title, and for every post on the
front page along with the post title on the single post pages. At least
that's how the 4 or 5 wordpress blogs I've configured have had it.
Hth,
-Michael.
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From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:20 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The Future of the USA Games Blog
Hi Dark,
Sure. All makes sense. Like I said to Mike I am familiar with the
difficulties of navigating blogs because some tend to have lots of
clutter and there is no easy way to just skip passed it like a normal
web page. Even if it is a straight journal/news system as I have I can't
press h and shift+h to jump between headers and topics which slows me
down. Of course, the most current posts usually appear at the top of the
page anyway which is fine if we just want the latest scoop on a product
or ongoing project.
By going back to html I can add all those tags for headers, tables,
lists, etc which are easy to navigate and pretty much every screen
reader has some way to jump back and forth between those page elements.
So I do believe that is the universally accessible method for posting
news blurbs and perhaps full articles on some subject or other.
That said, an idea I've had is perhaps a Wiki like Mediawiki. With a
wiki I wouldn't have to code everything in html, and I could get buy
with a minimum amount of fuss. Plus I can still add links, headers, etc
to the wiki just by tagging that specific text.
Cheers!
On 3/21/2012 4:01 AM, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
I don't think it's anything to do with the actual blog format as such. The
simple idea of jernal style long news posts in sequence is absolutely
fine, and there are a number of sites who's blogs I regularly check simply
because I'm interested in what the person in question has to say.
My issue however and I believe other peoples, is, is firstly one of page
clutter and navigation when you've got a hole bunch of catagory links,
links to wordpress and goodness knows what.
This is just a general computer thing i think, sinse where as for sighted
users putting too much block text in one place is bad, and lots of ways to
reorganize information is good, for vi users the more actual content ie,
comments and posts in the one place that can be skipped or read through
with a screen reader the better.
Just as one example, by default forums will display 20 posts per page,
sinse for a sighted user having too much text there is inconvenient and
they'd rather click next page links. almost the first thing I do upon
finding a new forum however is set the posts per page limit to maximum so
that I don't have to read several then click next page as often, ----- in
Punbb systems such as audiogames.net has this is 75 and could be more.
The same goes with displaying links in ss or anything else really, and
just is a consequence of methods of reading.
Of course, blogs can vary a lot in this. Most of the ones I check
frequently are very clean and don't clutter up the page with catagory
links and others too much, and the Usa games one certainly isn't guilty of
that.
secondly however, commenting on blogs is simply an ease factor. after all
it's far easier just to write a mail than go through, check a load of
boxes, write a name, and maybe do a capture as people have said. if a blog
was the only! thing usa games had, then people probably would use the
comments, but given that there are innumerable less tortuous ways to
contact you and discuss what is posted in the blog there isn't too much
need for the more inconvenient system.
Beware the Greu!
Dark.
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