This is a text-only version of the following page on https://raymii.org: --- Title : Site updates for accessibility, text only pages and skip to main content Author : Remy van Elst Date : 01-08-2018 URL : https://raymii.org/s/blog/Site_Improvements_for_accessibility.html Format : Markdown/HTML --- I've made some new improvements to this website. Raymii.org is generated using my self-written static site generator named ingsoc, the new features are focussed on accessibility. If you are using a screen reader or command-line browser this will benefit you. Or if you like to archive stuff offline. The two main improvements are a text-only version of every content page (article/tutorial etc) and a 'Skip to main content' link. [Three months ago I also did some site [updates][1]

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### Skip to main content If you visit this site using a screen reader (like Orca) or a command line browser like `links` the first thing on every page is a link to skip to the main content. Saves you going through the menu every time. The W3C has a page on this: [G1: Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area][3] on their Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Screenshot of a browser with CSS turned off: ![][4] Screenshot of a commandline browser: ![][5] ### Text only versions of content Also in the context of accessibility, every content page has a text-only version. There is a link at the top of every article, near the breadcrumb where the author and date of the article are listed. It will take you to a text-only version of the article. _Replacing`.html` with `.txt` in the URL will also work._ The text-only articles are the raw markdown I write and which the static site generator uses to generate this site. As my main goal is spreading knowledge and entertaining fellow nerds, I want this site to get readers. When I'm no longer around I hope this site is archived by many people (git repo [here][6] and the [web archive.org here][7]) and the knowledge and posts are retained for later generations. Just as I enjoy [old DEC documents][8]. And what file format is better than simple text? This fancy HTML and javascript might not be readable in the future, but my guess is that `.txt` will remain longer than the current javascript/browser trend, probably even longer than me. Screenshot in a commandline browser: ![][9] Screenshot of a text-only article: ![][10] If you have any comments or suggestions, please [let me know][11]. [1]: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Site_updates_new_layout_for_overview_pages.html [2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212 [3]: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G1.html [4]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/skip_to_main.png [5]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/skip_to_main_2.png [6]: https://github.com/RaymiiOrg/raymiiorg.github.io [7]: https://web.archive.org/web/*/raymii.org/s/ [8]: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_dec [9]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/text_only.png [10]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/text_only_2.png [11]: https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. This site uses Google Analytics for statistics and Google Adwords for advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you. Use an adblocker like ublock-origin if you don't want it. All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational purposes and you use it at your own risk. I do not take responsibility if you screw something up. Use common sense, do not 'rm -rf /' as root for example. If you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact me. See https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html for details.