Hi Jonathan: Thank you so much. Yes, I will monitize my blog with Amazon affiliates, and possibly Google adds for start. I appreciate the information. > On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sarai, very sorry to hear about your job situation. Hopefully the ideas > you have for your website/blog can help begin the next chapter of your career. > There are many content management systems (CMS) out there, but the two with > excellent accessibility support that are wisely used are Drupal and > WordPress. This is one of those age-old discussions where some people > strongly prefer one or the other, often based on what they learned first. > Some time back, I did an FSCast on this stuff, and since accessibility > questions relating to the web are, and should be screen reader agnostic, it > might be worth a listen. > I've administered Drupal and WordPress sites and I'd agree with Mark's > WordPress recommendation. The WordPress community is thriving, it's pretty > intuitive to use and there's a lot of power in the platform. The iOS app is > pretty cool and you can get push notifications when someone leaves comments > etc. If you're selling things, many options exist for integrating with Pay > Pal. > The Mosen Consulting, Appcessible and Mosen Explosion sites all do slightly > different things, but they're all WordPress based. The three of them show a > range of scenarios in which you might use it, from e-commerce to multimedia. > A lot of blind people are working with WordPress, so there's plenty of > support. > If you are looking for ways to monetise your blog/site, then you'll want a > domain name and probably want a full self-hosted solution, so you have as > much control as possible. > I'm presently using shared hosting with a company called DreamHost. They just > switched to solid state storage for all the drives in their shared hosting > system, which has made a discernible speed difference. Shared hosting is a > cheap way of getting up and running, and you can always migrate to more > expensive, robust solutions later. For example when I ran Mushroom FM, we ran > a dedicated server because of the insane bandwidth and resources we were > using. > Best of luck with what comes next for you. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >> On 7/03/2015, at 11:47 am, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi: >> I’m not a programmer, nor a web designer. Is there any accessible blog and >> web site creating platforms that are accessible on the Mac, iPhone, and >> Windows using Jaws 16? Are there any accesible resources for getting started? >> Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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