[Athen] Most accessible open source CMS

[E.A. Draffan]

Thank you so much Sean for coming back... I have to admit that I find Moodle
very easy but I am off to have another look at Drupal! 

Best Wishes E.A.



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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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