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From: Michael Roush
Date: Jun 10, 2005 1:46PM

Michael McFadden wrote:
> I am trying to find a list of accessible Portal frameworks. Is anyone
> familiar with online portals? We have a project that would benefit greatly
> from a Portal / Content Management System (CMS) but it has to be accessible
> or have the ability to be customized. Our preference is to find something
> that is open source because of our limited budget however there might be an
> affordable commercial product. Thank you in advance for the help.

Here is one that I have used only a couple times in the past, but with a very good degree of success....

PHPWebSite - [http://phpwebsite.sourceforge.net]

>From their page... Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system ( CMS ). All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3Cs Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.

This is the only CMS I have ever come across that even makes such a claim.

Michael Roush, Technology Consultant
Hopewell SERRC