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From: Eoin Campbell
Date: Jan 12, 2004 4:20AM

We also reviewed Contribute from an accessibility perspective.
A summary is online at http://www.xmlw.ie/services/mmcontributereview.htm
Overall, it is better than many editing tools, but doesn't support
all the accessibility features of HTML, e.g. ability to specify
language, or use ACRONYM or ABBR tags.
We also wanted support for input of Dublin Core Metadata, but this is
not available by default at least, although it might be possible to
create an extension for it.

At 16:01 09/01/2004 -0500, Stephanie Sullivan wrote:
>on 1/8/04 11:48 AM, Carol Foster at <EMAIL REMOVED> profoundly spewed
>forth their very articulate thoughts:
>
>> I just looked through the archives for previous discussion of
>> Macromedia's Contribute and its accessibility features, and I saw that
>> Holly Marie asked about it a while back, but I couldn't find her email
>> address in the archives. So, Holly Marie and others, have you learned
>> any more about the advantages and disadvantages for accessibility using
>> Contribute? Replies to me or to the list would be appreciated! I will
>> be looking into this further myself as time permits.
>
>Carol... Contribute is an editing product, not a web building product... So
>basically, the site is built using Dreamweaver (or another web building
>product) and then the client edits text and adds images and such (if you
>allow them to add images --- you can even limit the size of images they
>add).
>
>You have the ability to set up permissions for various groups you create.
>Some of the options include, "Enforce accessibility options (such as ALT
>text for images)" and "Use <strong> and <em> in place of <b> and <i>". You
>can control their use of Fonts or CSS (font application can be completely
>turned off in favor of CSS only).

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