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From: Rich Pedley
Date: May 8, 2007 7:20AM

On 08/05/2007 14:00, Gareth Dart wrote:
> 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.

That was my impression also, thanks for confirming.

> 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.

Well I'd get to tinker first, followed up by a couple of other
knowledgeable techies. After which we should be able to train up
people fairly easily to use it. Though we would probably create a
sandbox area for them to play.

While I am looking after the site, then all new content would be
reviewed and amended as necessary.

Rich