[Athen] Accessible CMS top picks

[Ron Stewart]

Currently in working with my clients, Drupal is showing the highest level of
accessibility but the problem is in the implementation.  I was at a large
client last week and they had implemented a media rotator on their sites
which created all kinds of havoc with the accessibility.  In going through
the code with them it was a coding error, but the marketing folks insisted
that they have this video vinyete.

Ron Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-list-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Greg
Kraus
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 12:55 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessible CMS top picks

I like both Drupal and WordPress. Drupal is good if you have coders to help
you set it up and customize it. WordPress is definitely more user friendly,
especially if you aren't a hard-core coder. However, even some of our coders
prefer WordPress over Drupal.

In the end, it depends on what ultimately you want to do with a site that
determines if you use WordPress or Drupal. The more like a set of static Web
pages you want it, the more I'd lean towards WordPress. If you want more
functionality, like interacting with a database, I'd lean more towards
Drupal. For us it's not an either/or situation. It's finding the best tool
for the job, so we end up using both in different circumstances.

I hope this helps.

Greg


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Prickett, Elizabeth
<Elizabeth.Prickett at victoriacollege.edu> wrote:

> Good morning!

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> Our college is looking for options to replace our ancient Joomla 

> website. Do any of you have a CMS (commercial or open source) that 

> you've fallen in love with for accessibility, usability and 

> responsiveness? We'd like to find a solution on which we can fairly easily

train our content managers, too.

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> I'm looking for examples from different institutions that have used 

> various CMSs. I've found a few examples so far who are using Cascade 

> Server, OmniUpdate, Drupal and WordPress. If anyone has a page/site 

> they are particularly proud of, I'd love to know!

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> I've also been searching to see if there is any sort of comparison 

> chart for CMSs, but the only ones I've been finding are from several years

ago.

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> Thanks for any information or testimonials you may have!

>

> Have a wonderful weekend,

>

>

>

> Liz Prickett

>

> Alternative Media Specialist

>

> Center for Academic & Professional Excellence (CAPE)

>

> Victoria College

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> 2200 E. Red River Street

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> Victoria, TX 77901

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> Elizabeth.Prickett at VictoriaCollege.edu

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> (361) 573-3291, ext. 3243

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