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I just wanted to confirm This article by Mike Little. The post states that the new WYSIWYG Post Editor in Wordpress - the greatest blogging software in the world, is “no longer accessible”, at least for those not using a mouse. As I am blind, I indeed belong to the non-mouse-users on this planet; on the other hand, I read the article after upgrading to the new Wordpress 2.0 version and thought to still give it a try before, as suggested in the post, downgrading to the older 1.5.2 version again

Now what I discovered was that indeed the WYSIWYG Editor is hardly usable or accessible for the blind (users of popular screen reading software). Switching off the editor, which means kind of switching to ‘classic view’, solves the issue - at least for me, as you all can see now (or was I unable to post this article after all?) So I am glad I still can use the 2.0 edition of Wordpress and enjoy the fixed bugs and the groving number of plugins available for it!

Now as for uploading pictures or other files, I have not tried anything yet, but according to the article, it might be difficult, too.
I spent the last minutes trying to find a quick way to upload a recent picture of Leo, my most inteligent dog. But to make it short: I couldn’t find one within yet, since the auto-thumbnail-creation seems to be gone in this version.
So I guess Leo has to stay with me for now and will be released as soon as I find the time to install another Image Plugin

happy new year everyone anyway!!!

Scandinavian Airlines is doing another promotional campaign, this time under the name “christmas Calendar - It’s a small world”.
Every day, they send out an email presenting a city to the reader and asking to Click To Open The Calendar, to get a great deal on a trip to that city and so on and so on.

Unfortunately, when you visit this web page with a Screen Reader, the only thing you get is the subscription form as well as a “Macromedia Movie Window”, which contains only the word “tag” - everything else is not readable to the screen reader or its user.

I will - maybe - try to contact SAS on this again. But after not having gotten any feedback on my last emails to them about similar issues, I hardly have any hope - especially not for this year’s Christmas.