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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