My little PicoSpeaker program is moving into a new home. The Git repo will still be on Github Gitlab where it's always been where it moved after the Microsoft takeover, but the downloads and all information about the program will soon be available from its official web site official website, now defunct. Enjoy the new look. Wow! I didn’t know I could do all this free of charge! Waaaaay cool!
I’m experimenting with adding a share button to my posts, which should make it easier to share them on your favorite social network. I’m currently trying the share button from Add to Any, which allows both sharing and bookmarking on many networks from a single button. Other than the fact that my post title only shows up correctly if you click the button from the post’s page, it seems to work quite well.
I noticed that nothing seems to happen if you press enter on the link that says “Share it.” The solution to this problem has so far only been tested with Orca and Firefox 4.x, but you should be able to press enter on the link, press control-home to get to the top of the page, and then press enter again. From there you will be able to tab to the link for the network you want and press enter to go to its share page. The text box will already be filled in with the link, and usually the title of the post. If you click a share button on the front page, however, you will probably want to replace the blog title with the title of the post or whatever text you like. Let me know in the comments if this works on other screen readers/browsers or if you find another solution that works better for you. If not, I’ll look for another share button that will work better in more situations. I feel that a share button of some kind is a good thing, but I don’t want to sacrifice the accessibility of my blog to have one.
I found a faster solution for navigating the pop-up menu for Add to Any. I have changed my screen reader tips to reflect the new key sequence. I also looked at Add This, which is supposed to be the world’s most popular share button, but I couldn’t properly make it work using a screen reader, so it looks as though Add to Any is indeed the best choice.
I replaced my link to a page containing Feedburner's email subscription form with the direct link. It doesn’t conform to my theme, but since the form opened Feedburner's window to present the captcha verification, I thought it would be better to have the email address textbox in the same place. It just looks a bit cleaner and allows for one less click and page load during the subscription process.
It's the last piece of the puzzle, and the single thing I missed from Posterous. Readers of The Kyle File can now subscribe via email to my feed, thanks to Google’s Feedburner. I have placed the link immediately below the Get the feed link at the bottom of my left sidebar. If I did this right, anyone who subscribes to my emails will receive a single message once every day that I post. It looks like you can also click Get the feed and you'll see a link to have The Kyle File delivered to your email along with several other options for receiving the feed. If you have any problems or suggestions regarding this feature, let me know in the comments section below.
I just moved my other site links to my about page. I think it looks better there than having it on every page.