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From: Rosie Sherry
Date: Wed, Apr 26 2006 4:20PM
Subject: Accessible CMS
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I'm investigating CMS's at the moment, specifically ones that adhere
to accessibility standards and guidelines.

Any one out there know of any good ones? Ones to avoid?

Thanks.

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Rosie Sherry
http://www.drivenqa.com/
http://rosiesherry.blogspot.com/




From: Karl Groves
Date: Wed, Apr 26 2006 7:20PM
Subject: RE: Accessible CMS
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Rosie -

I recommend a look at http://www.qnecms.co.uk/

Karl L. Groves
User-Centered Design, Inc.
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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Thu, Apr 27 2006 2:40PM
Subject: RE: Accessible CMS
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Rosie, et al.

This was my question a few months ago. The general consensus of the group
here - I think - was "no" and that's because even the best CMS can be made
to render inaccessible web pages.

I am still searching and recently found Jim Byrne's site which Karl just
pointed out to you. Jim markets this as an accessible CMS system and it look
like a very nice product. But the caution that was expressed before still
stands. Without some knowledge and understanding of accessibility issues,
one could still create an inaccessible website.

I will probably give QnECMS a whirl. But I am still cautious.

Others was to weigh in?

~j


John E. Brandt
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com



From: Penny Roberts
Date: Fri, Apr 28 2006 3:00AM
Subject: Re: Accessible CMS
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John E. Brandt wrote:

> This was my question a few months ago. The general consensus of the group
> here - I think - was "no" and that's because even the best CMS can be made
> to render inaccessible web pages.

Too true. We're using a CMS that is SENDA compliant; but no-one seems
to realise that the staff using it can (and are!) creating inaccessible
pages :-(

Penny





From: chris
Date: Sun, Apr 30 2006 12:10AM
Subject: RE: Accessible CMS
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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:39 -0400, John E. Brandt wrote:
> Rosie, et al.
>
> This was my question a few months ago. The general consensus of the group
> here - I think - was "no" and that's because even the best CMS can be made
> to render inaccessible web pages.

Have you tried out Plone? http://www.plone.org

While it's true that any cms can be made inaccessible, I've always
thought the thing to look for is a system that gets out of your way so
it's easy to create an accessible site.

hth
chris