u/shutupimrosiev

So, for reasons, I have a group of four main divs of text that I need to display side-by-side, all contained within a larger div, but the first div that I want page viewers to read is not the leftmost div. (Please ignore the color choices- those are just so I have something visual to look at to make sure the divs are where I want them to be.) I currently have the containing divs set up as grids.

Is there any way to get a screen reader to prioritize reading the four sub-divs in a given div in the order red, yellow, green, blue, then read the div that spans the whole layout, then read the next group of sub-divs in the same order? And would it be still applicable if I needed to temporarily "merge" two adjacent columns (see second image)?

I can handle the actual formatting into the grid, I think. Nesting divs where necessary could get the kind of hierarchy I could then plug into whatever html/css I need to use to prioritize the reading order I want. Or if there's some way to fill in a grid sort of "out of order" where the html has the red divs typed out first but the page layout still displays as seen in my screenshots. Is there anything that could do what I'm looking for, or should I just try and make a version of this text that's significantly less insane and offer it as an alternative to all this?

(I really hope I'm making sense, I don't really have anybody knowledgeable enough in html/css to bounce ideas off of, so it is entirely possible this was just a whole bunch of gobbledegook trying to figure out something that can't actually be done.)

(The stick on the left probably won't get turned into a needle unless/until I get good enough that I think I can make a nice small one out of it. The stick on the right is one I think I can make at least 1-2 needles out of. Or I might make needles slightly smaller than the stick on the left from the get-go and just go with that.)

I just, uh…I just haven't done much with wood in several years and don't have any of the "professional" tools one might have if they've done a lot with the hobby. I don't even have a drill. If I can get my hands on a good whittling knife, could that be enough to carve out the right shapes from my chosen stick(s) (there are so many nice ones I saved from the firewood pile lol)? I can handle smoothing them down once I have the right general shape worked out, it'd just making the hole for the eye of the needle that I'm not sure about.

The wood itself came from one of a few pretty healthy saplings that unluckily happened to be growing on our side of the fence, so I was told to cut them down anyway, but at least this way I can get something out of it and add to my hoard of textile crafts. And I do know how to differentiate between maple and oak leaves, I just may or may not have forgotten which of the two the larger stick there came from. 😂

Depending on how well this goes, I might try using some branches I'm saving from a poorly-placed thornbush that turned out to have some lovely yellow wood next.

My best guess is that something happened with the BIOS update a few days ago that just didn't like Linux being here instead of Windows, but since I wasn't present a few days ago and the owner of this laptop has a history of being allergic to telling things how they happened and will just say the laptop Did This Out Of The Blue, I have no idea if user error was involved in any way or if it really did just Do This Out Of The Blue.

I have tried following these directions with multiple flash drives, with both the update from the website and the EZ flash thing, but I just keep getting this screen. Do I keep beating my head against the wall or should I recommend taking this to someone who repairs computers for a living?