FP Hit Counter Component for a Blind Person?

[Mardon]

My blind nephew has asked me to put a Hit Counter on his webpage for him. I
would normally use the FP "Hit Counter" Component to do this but he can not
see any graphics. He uses JAWS screen reader software to monitor his
webpage status, so I need a Hit Counter that produces the value and displays
it as regular text, not as a graphics image. Alternatively, a graphics
image would be OK if it automatically produced an "ALT" tag attribute for
the image that gives the counter value in plain text. Can anyone suggest
how to do either of these things, or something else taht will work? Thanks.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Mardon: If you Google for "text hit counter", it brings up many pages.

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| My blind nephew has asked me to put a Hit Counter on his webpage for him.
I
| would normally use the FP "Hit Counter" Component to do this but he can
not
| see any graphics. He uses JAWS screen reader software to monitor his
| webpage status, so I need a Hit Counter that produces the value and
displays
| it as regular text, not as a graphics image. Alternatively, a graphics
| image would be OK if it automatically produced an "ALT" tag attribute for
| the image that gives the counter value in plain text. Can anyone suggest
| how to do either of these things, or something else taht will work?
Thanks.
|
|

 

[Mardon]

Mardon: If you Google for "text hit counter", it brings up many pages.

Yes. I always look for answers via Goggle before posting questions to
newsgroups. When I did that for a 'text-only' hit counter, I found that
most references for counters of this type were based on Perl script and Unix
servers. When I did find 'text only' hit counters for Windows servers, they
seemed pretty complicated; at least for an 'ASP novice' to implement.
That's why I posted my question. In any event, early this morning I found
Imar Spaanjaar's very clear tutorial
(http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocID.aspx?QuickDoc=165) and have used it
to create the counter that I wanted. It involves putting some VB script in
the global.asa file and storing the hit values in an Access database. It's
rather neat, since it only increments the hit counter once during each
Session. I had to modify Imar's code a tiny bit to use "Server.MapPath"
for the DB connection but other than that, I was able to use exactly what
Imar provided. My counter is now working fine. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

You might be able to find a hit counter here or get some proper direction,
hope this helps.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Richardhtml

 

[Guest]

I also found Alternative Web Browsing.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing