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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Aug 3, 2023 2:48AM

Static site generators are wonderful for content creators since pretty much all of them allow some kind of text-only format like Markdown. This is about the most accessible authoring experience I can imagine, since you can use whatever text editor you like). But bear in mind that you still have to choose (or create) an accessible theme. This is not as easy as you'd think. Too many theme authors seem to believe they can tag a theme as "accessible" if it's easy to use, not understanding what that term is actually meant for....

One benefit of something like Wordpress or Drupal is they've been around long enough that you can actually find accessible themes if you look hard enough. I've had a tough time finding an accessible "technical documentation" theme for my preferred SSG (Hugo).