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From: bj
Date: May 13, 2008 12:40PM

Hey Kara,

I work extensively with WordPress, and (nearly) all html is generated
by the templates/ theme files, so all control over the accessibility
of the frontend is within the templating of the theme or in the
plugins. That's not to say it's 100% accessible "out of the box",
though it isn't bad, compared to others. But it can be templated and
tweaked to meet accessibility guidelines without being overly
demanding of time.

Though it's in alpha right now, I know that the Habari blog platform
will be paying a lot of attention to Accessibility, since Chris (head
dev) is accessibility aware.

Another open source ap that allows accessible front end templating
is ModX, which is more of a CMS than a blog platform. Some
universities have used ModX as their platform of choice for a lot of
reasons, accessibility being one of them.

I hope that helps.

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Ciao for now,
bj mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED>



Monday, May 12, 2008, 3:01:18 PM, you wrote:

> Is anyone using any of the following applications or products and if so
> could you please give me some input on whether or not they are
> accessible to individuals with disabilities or meet Section 508
> Compliance? Also, if anyone has done research on similar applications
> and chose not to go with one of the following applications what
> application did you go with that was more accessible?

> Applications such as:

> Adobe Breeze; Townhall; Blackboard; Respondus; CMS' Droople, Paperthin,
> Commonspot and Figleaf; Luminous; Hawkeye software assets tracking;
> Email applications GoogleApps, Microsoft Live or Exchange Labs; various
> Blog Platforms (ex. Wordpress); various Survey Software; Banner and
> other Sunguard applications; SkillPort; iTunes U Podcasting; Accordent
> Capture; SharePoint 2007; Microsoft VISTA; ILLiad (interlibrary loan
> management system); VuFind; Basecamp; GMPLS (generalized multiprotocol
> label switching); AppWorx; and Touchnet software

> Also, has anyone contacted vendors directly asking for changes to be
> made in response to accessibility if contract language wasn't originally
> in the picture? Can anyone make any suggestions about this?

> Thanks,