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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Apr 3, 2007 9:20AM

I can second the Joomla! recommendation. I'm currently re-doing our
very large website from old static HTML to a Joomla CMS, and we have a
firm, non-negotiable commitment to accessibility. Although I would not
go as far as to say that Joomla is accessible out of the box (especially
the administrator's interface), it's been relatively straightforward to
make it output accessible markup to W3C priority 1 level. Priority 2 is
something we'll be looking at once phase 1 goes to production and I
start fine-tuning the site, but so far that hasn't been a problem
either.

Joomla's secure branch is currently at 1.0.12. Their 1.5 branch is
currently in beta, but this may have more accessible output by default:
I know they're trying to chop out a lot of table-based formatting that
currently blots their copybook and move toward a more 'divs-with-CSS'
oriented approach.

I've also heard good things about Drupal and Textpattern, although I
could not vouch for their accessibility. Many commercial CMSes have a
lot of proprietary features - one we trialled required IE6 and would
work on no other browser (and they wanted money for this - go figure) -
so I'd recommend that you go open source as this does not speak well of
their accessibility, to me.

G