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2007-09-13 Thread S.R. Emerson
I asked a person I know that is physically challenged about Wordpress and she doesn't have any problems with it. Found this review: http://juicystudio.com/article/choosing-an-accessible-cms.php Look at comment #27 - submitted by a visually impaired user who uses JAWS screen reader. S. R. Emers

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-13 Thread JonMarc Wright
Anyone here try out exponent cms? I've found it extremely to use, and administer, very simple to convert designs as well. It uses smarty for the view output, and pretty much only uses code in the actually files that control the design and layout for data pulling from the database, not for the actu

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-13 Thread XStandard
Tee wrote: > [XStandard] Mac version finally came out - a very long wait, > must be at least 2 year It wasn't a straight port - we were pioneering new accessible UI and few features such as authoring definition lists at the same time as we were writing the OS X code. Whenever you're first to do s

RE: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread John Horner
t: Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS John Horner wrote: > I don't mean to be difficult, but I'm always baffled by this question. > > A CMS, presumably, outputs the code you tell it to output. Whether it > serves up accessible/valid is completely up to you. > > T

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Raena Jackson Armitage
On 9/13/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From another perspective, could someone relying on assistive technology > contribute webpages? This is what i always wonder with these questions, too. I can think of a lot of examples where the administration/editing interface is ho

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
n Behalf Of Web Dandy Design Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 7:14 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Thanks, Elaine Web Designer http://www

RE: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread John Horner
definition not a CMS although of course we might really be asking about degrees of difficulty. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Web Dandy Design Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 7:14 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessi

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Sep 12, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Tee wrote: Personally I don't think there is a fully accessible WYSIWYG Editor existed that delivers pure clean code. It all depends on how you define "fully". XStandard has a keyboard accessible interface and most definitely del

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread XStandard
Tee wrote: > Personally I don't think there is a fully accessible > WYSIWYG Editor existed that delivers pure clean code. It all depends on how you define "fully". XStandard has a keyboard accessible interface and most definitely delivers clean, accessible markup. Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Tate Johnson
On 12/09/2007, at 7:13 PM, Web Dandy Design wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Thanks, I'd encourage you to take a look at Silverstripe. It's flexible -- you have *full* control of the markup that it outputs and it's

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: This article may be useful: http://juicystudio.com/article/choosing-an-accessible-cms.php Hmm, I wonder why they didn't include Modx. The survey was done in May, maybe Modx (v 0.9.5) wasn't quite ready yet! The v.9.6 has impro

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread John Faulds
rochnau bkdesign solutions - Original Message - From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS On 9/12/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do: use Wordpre

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread XStandard
This article may be useful: http://juicystudio.com/article/choosing-an-accessible-cms.php Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com XStandard XHTML WYSIWYG Editor for CMS *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 12/9/07 (14:55) Bruce said: >These and related are as accessible as their programmers make them. I find >them all difficult to configure for the reason that one is limited my >mambots, modules, plugins, etc which are made to add functions and wysiwyg >editors. All the code in the templates (

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Bruce
g or functions. Bruce Prochnau bkdesign solutions - Original Message - From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS On 9/12/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 9/12/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tee G. Peng wrote: > > > > On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Web Dandy Design wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, > >> Drupal or Plone? > > > > Modx cms > > > > Does anyone ha

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread David Little
Hi, >> No takers? I'll answer the question: Plone. I'll second that. We've been using Zope for some time in my current workplace and are now moving to Plone. Plone comes "out of the box" with good standards support, although you'll naturally want to customise the look and feel -- you can give a

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Barney Carroll
Web Dandy Design wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? No takers? I'll answer the question: Plone. You'll need Python (pretty rare on servers as a whole) as opposed to the far more widespread PHP to run the shebang, but I find i

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Tee G. Peng wrote: On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Web Dandy Design wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Modx cms Does anyone have any thoughts on Text Pattern? Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz h

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Web Dandy Design wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Modx cms tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidel

[WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Web Dandy Design
Hi, Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Thanks, Elaine Web Designer http://www.webdandy.co.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscri