One way I can tell is the default notification on where you are at if via keyboard navigation, is gone. I personally rely on this quite heavily. If I know I need to hit Tab 10 times to get somewhere, I am forced to count now, versus watching visually. Another thing is since I have the wp.com stat plugin activated, the cursor is by default is placed in the login box for that. While it is cool that I can login with just hitting enter, since that password is saved, but my focus is now halfway down the page. Where will I be located after a few tabs? Who really knows.

The sad thing about this is, I was asked my opinion if WordPress would be a good option for a blind user. At the time, I was still running 2.6.* and said it’s ok, not the best thing to use. I added that if the said user was considered a power user, they could make it work. I don’t think this will be the case anymore. Like I said, this is sad, so many people are using WordPress not only for bloggin but things like a CMS! It is shame that the dev team doesn’t adhere to standards. Going off that, it says they have no interest is accessibility. You can stretch that out to include usability even.

Well if you are using the WordPress.com Stats Plugin, there is a slight bug or an annoyance. If you don’t put the full title you want prior to the first time it auto saves, it will be the partial title, or the all lovely: ?p=123. I just started noticing this a few days ago, my last post, I didn’t know what to exactly say for a title, so now in WP.com Stats’ database, it shows up as “Kid Vote” or something along those lines.

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Yesterday I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, as well as upgraded the Askimet plugin. So, just do a quick look before you hit delete all.

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While I the layout is nothing special, except for the write a post page, the color scheme is terrible. The first time I saw it, I had to look away do to the colors. I am quite sorry to say, who ever has designed the admin panel, needs to read up on contrasting. Considering the panel came from Happy Cog Studios, which is headed by Jeffrey Zeldman, this just makes me even more sad.

Sidenote About the Write a New Post Page

I have to give this a thumbs down as well. It seems like it is set for somebody who is blogging in the contributer or writer role, not an administrator. On my 17-inch screen, I have to scroll to get to one of WordPress’ key features, the categorizing of the post. Seeing how I am a big keyboard user, all this makes me do is use the mouse more. I will leave out the minimal access you get if you navigate by keyboard in the most important part of the panel.

So, in conclusion, the biggest thing that was widely acclaimed about, is nothing but disappointment for me. The one thing that is particularly nice is the built-in feeling of the WordPress Stats plugin. I cannot wait until the Popularity Contest plugin gets updated.

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One year ago I bought a domain and started blogging at this sub domain.

Happy Anniversary to me.

This was just under two years ago, and I still get hits daily for that post. I am shocked, a few days ago, I have gotten just under 950 hits for that post. I wish that all of my posts or just my blog in general got that many on a regular basis. But, I think I write half-decent things, although I don’t get much attention from it.

Now I know I shouldn’t be talking since I don’t have a ton of posts or even a ton of comments on here. But then again, I am not really trying. Yeah, I hit a peak back in February ‘06 when I was blogging on a daily basis, and had a small group of followers. I killed that off because when I asked are you commenting to boost stats for a new comment service, they told me yes.

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I am currently developing the theme as a flat file for ease, but will be converting it to PHP later on. It won’t be too hard I don’t think, the biggest concern of mine is getting it finished. Which won’t be for quite a while because of school.

I have been playing around with a few ideas, some that I have seen in some templates that have the look I am going after, but those aren’t too widely used. I am hoping to have it done soon, but I would still need to convert it to the appropriate files for WordPress.

[Update:] I started this post just over a month ago, and this is how busy I am…I decided to keep what I have now.

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I originally didn’t want to update, because it seemed as though widgets were required to use. A while back, I did a post on how widgets effected my blog. I figured out that if you empty the widget sidebar, it will read the hand coded version. Thank god!

One thing I do not like is the new way you preview your post. Which is, instead of just hitting save, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and see the preview, you now have to hit save then click on the preview link just under the title block. Well, I am mainly a keyboard user, meaning that I hardly touch the mouse when I use a computer, whether that’s for looking at a website, or general usage. The preview link is not accessible via any conventional ways. The only way you can access it, via the keyboard, is use Firefox’s find feature.

It will be interested to see what will be included, both in version 2.2.x and 2.3.

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