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Re: Accessible CMS - was RE: form label question

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Aug 22, 2007 4:00AM

On 22/08/07, Gareth Dart < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> To get the ball rolling, though, I've found Joomla! 1.0.x to be
> reasonably easy to adapt to produce accessible markup - at least to
> Priority 1 standards (and indications were good for Priority 2). I seem
> to recall that the consensus last time we all had this discussion was
> that none of the CMSs produced completely accessible markup, but that
> some were definitely better than others, and, in particular, open-source
> solutions were better than proprietary ones (even if the reason was only
> because one could edit the source code). I could be wrong, though -
> search the archives.

Also bear in mind that it's not just about the end product; the
application/admin screens themselves need to be accessible to truly be
called an Accessible CMS.

Tim