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From: John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
Date: Aug 22, 2007 12:20PM

Sawang Srisom wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone here happen to know any accessible content management
> system (CMS)? I've been searching for it for weeks but cannot really
> find a good one.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sawang Srisom


Having dealt with this at different levels, I might suggest the following:

Quick 'n Easy CMS:
[http://www.qnecms.co.uk/] a light-weight but extremely accessible CMS.
Ideal for smaller one or two content author type sites.

Drupal v. 5.x:
[http://WWW.drupal.org] A serious "swiss army knife" CMS that *can* be
accessible: the current default template is pretty good out of the box,
although the myriad plug-in modules vary in quality. However, the core
package is quite good and worth looking at - I am seeing it being deployed
quite extensively here on campus, and with some minor tweaks to the
templates and CSS I'm generally satisfied that we're "getting there" - not
perfect, but not bad...

Joomla!
[http://www.joomla.org/] While I've not actually worked with this CMS, I did
have the opportunity to speak with the core developer group last March, and
I left that discussion with the feeling that accessibility is a key aspect
of their CMS as well. Worthwhile investigating.

Hope this helps

JF