[Athen] Most accessible open source CMS

[skeegan at htctu.net]

Hi E.A.,


> I am sure this has been discussed but with all the updates to open source

> CMS tools I just wondered if anyone had an opinion on which is the most

> accessible one?


Unfortunately, I have not played with Joomla is some time, so I cannot  
comment on its accessibility support.

Drupal is what the ATHEN site uses (along with a specific theme) and  
it is pretty good with respect to accessibility.  At the time, there  
were not many CMS platforms the ATHEN hosting provider would support,  
so we went with Drupal and it has worked well.  Plone  
(http://plone.org) is another CMS that has done a lot of work with  
respect to accessibility as well (I believe it was the first to  
conform to the Section 508 standards).  The biggest challenge that I  
have had with these systems is not so much an accessibility issue with  
the basic CMS platform itself, but the modules that you may need to  
install to get additional features vary sometimes in accessibility  
support.

I am encouraged by Moodle's direction for accessibility (particularly  
for the 1.8 release) and the involvement of such a large number of  
people working on accessibility alone.  If everything the Moodle  
Accessibility Specification for 1.8 gets addressed, then it *should*  
be a very usable system with AT (...*should* being the operative word).

I don't have a real opinion as to which is the best for accessibility  
as they all have strengths and weaknesses and it depends on what you  
need the CMS to do.  That being said, the platforms you mentioned tend  
to be towards the top with respect to supporting accessibility.

take care,
sean




Quoting "E.A. Draffan" <ea at emptech.info>:


> I am sure this has been discussed but with all the updates to open source

> CMS tools I just wondered if anyone had an opinion on which is the most

> accessible one? Joomla seem to be off with Google to work on it

> http://code.google.com/soc/joomla/appinfo.html?csaid=52B7D46E2DD02887

> Mambo and Drupal are on Robbie's list and I am using Moodle at the moment.

>

> Thank you in anticipation!! :>))

>

> Best Wishes E.A.

>

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