Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-05 Thread L. Robinson
Michael Donnermeyer wrote: TextPattern works well, particularly now that they've released a final version. I used WordPress up until v.1.5 due to TXP being in beta and RC versions, but have since slowly switched to TXP for all my sites. The only site I can think of at the moment that is ru

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-02 Thread David Nicol
Hi all,   We used Textpattern for http://www.bustahouse.com/ and http://www.selfcateringshetland.com/   It's a really nice solution for putting together sites. My main concern with Textpattern is teaching clients how to use it, as the sections/categories model is sometimes a little tricky for them

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-02 Thread Rakesh Patil
Plz dont send me any mail onword.. otherwise i'll.!!1  On 12/1/05, Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Guys,I have been asked to work on a web site and Mambo is the current CMSbeing used. They want to, if possible, keep Mambo as they're CMS but upon inspe

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-02 Thread Geoff Deering
Lloyd wrote: Guys, Thanks for all the feedback! Backend is important as one of our content providers is blind. Does anyone know much more about Joomla? They are possibly prepared to upgrade (As they see this is just the same thing). I want to know whether its possible to do this with either Mam

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Lloyd
Guys, Thanks for all the feedback! Backend is important as one of our content providers is blind. Does anyone know much more about Joomla? They are possibly prepared to upgrade (As they see this is just the same thing). I want to know whether its possible to do this with either Mambo or Joomla but

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Vladimir Yashnikov
Hello Michael, > I used WordPress up until v.1.5 due to TXP being in > beta and RC versions, but have since slowly switched to TXP for all > my sites. The only site I can think of at the moment that is running > TXP (and doing a good job of it) is Hicks Design (http:// > www.hicksdesign.

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Noone
Michael Donnermeyer deftly quothed: > ...if you take the time to look. Ahem. Yes. Thank you, Michael. :* ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on postin

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread absalom
> I've never used it myself, but you might want to take a > look at Joomla. It's compatible with Mambo at this point > http://www.joomla.org/index.php?Itemid=44&option=com_faq&catid=7 > and the developers are at least are trying to be compliant > and accessible > http://help.joomla.org/conten

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Donnermeyer
ew such pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Drake Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 4:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility www.GAWDS.org (Guild of Accessible Web Developers) has a fully acces

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Noone
f Christian Montoya Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 8:47 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility If you want to find out which CMS is good for your needs, you might want to check out: http://www.opensourcecms.com/ They have live installs of maybe hundreds of C

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Christian Montoya
If you want to find out which CMS is good for your needs, you might want to check out: http://www.opensourcecms.com/ They have live installs of maybe hundreds of CMS, all rated, user comments, organized in categories. The installs are wiped every 2 hours, so you can go in with the demo password a

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Noone
Except that they still insist on membership before you can view such pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Drake Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 4:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibi

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Terrence Wood
Lloyd said: > Is there a way to make Mambo compatible (A large reason for the work > is to allow blind users to get value from the site) with accessiblily > and hopefully web standards? Are you refering to the the CMS interface itself (i.e. the admin bits) or to the public facing output? Most CMS

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Terrence Wood
Lloyd said: > Is there a way to make Mambo compatible (A large reason for the work > is to allow blind users to get value from the site) with accessiblily > and hopefully web standards? Are you refering to the the CMS interface itself (i.e. the admin bits) or to the public facing output? Most CMS

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Donnermeyer
TextPattern works well, particularly now that they've released a final version. I used WordPress up until v.1.5 due to TXP being in beta and RC versions, but have since slowly switched to TXP for all my sites. The only site I can think of at the moment that is running TXP (and doing a goo

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Ted Drake
, December 01, 2005 8:35 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:13 +0800 Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > >... > > Is there a way to make Mambo compatible (A large reason >for the work > is to allo

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Neal Watkins
What about www.textpattern.com has anyone tried this? ~n uoting Steve Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:13 +0800 Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Guys, ... Is there a way to make Mambo compatible (A large reason for the work is to allow blind users to get value fro

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Ferguson
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:13 +0800 Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Guys, ... Is there a way to make Mambo compatible (A large reason for the work is to allow blind users to get value from the site) with accessiblily and hopefully web standards? Is there another CMS that you would mentio

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Thorp
I am a big fan of Wordpress [1].  I personally use it, as well as use it on a lot of projects for clients.  I have found it very easy to configure.  If you know a HTML and a little PHP, it is very versatile.For one project, I was tasked with taking a look at the accessibility of Mambo and the feasi

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Carlos Revillo
] En nombre de Bruce Enviado el: jueves, 01 de diciembre de 2005 13:26 Para: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Asunto: Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility Woops, missed this: If Mambo can be configured easy, as some claim, why has there not been a ton of templates available long ago??? On different CMS

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce
: "Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:15 AM Subject: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility Hi Guys, I have been asked to work on a web site and Mambo is the current CMS being used. They want to, if possible, keep Mambo as they're CMS but upon inspect

Re: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce
rying to use other systems I gave Mambo and all nuke related up as a lost cause. Bruce Prochnau BKDesign Solutions - Original Message - From: "Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:15 AM Subject: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility Hi Guys, I h

[WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Lloyd
Hi Guys, I have been asked to work on a web site and Mambo is the current CMS being used. They want to, if possible, keep Mambo as they're CMS but upon inspecting it I am surrounded by tables and poor markup. It does not even seem possible (Without hacking the source) to add ALT text to some image