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From: Gareth Dart
Date: May 8, 2007 7:10AM

Accessibility wise, I've had a reasonably smooth ride with Joomla. It's
not accessible out of the box, but has required minimal tweaking to
achieve all the priority 1 W3C targets. It's also a damn good CMS, the
admin side is pretty intuitive, and easily extensible. Joomla 1.5
promises to be a solid step forward, too.

One note that probably bears repeating: of almost equal importance as
the framework you choose is educating your authors (irrelevant if it's
just you, obviously) in how to produce accessible articles, and (if such
a thing is even possible ;) ) making sure they follow the guidelines.
Accessibility-proofing your CMS is all for nowt if your content creators
start churning stuff out with five million 'click here' links, for
instance.

G

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Subject: [WebAIM] accessible CMS

I realise this gets discussed every so often, so apologies for bringing
this up once again.

I am looking for a 'free' CMS that has accessibility features, or at the
very least has accessibility in mind.

Currently my top runners are:
PostNuke - http://www.postnuke.com/
Joomla - http://www.joomla.org/
XOOPS - http://www.xoops.org/
TYPO3 - http://typo3.org/
MySource Matrix - http://matrix.squiz.net/

I am leaning toward TYPO3 at the moment.

I would use my own CMS, but it lacks some extra features, and the
up-grade ability, of the larger packages.


Has anyone any thoughts on any of these, including ease of use on the
admin side of things, overall accessibility etc etc.

I haven't yet run any accessibility checks on these systems, but would
appreciate comments from first hand experience of any of these systems.


thanks in advance

Rich Pedley