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Web Accessibility and Content Management Systems
October 28th, 2008Abstract
Web accessibility is an issue that is being spoken about more and more, yet very few Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS) are truly accessible. A growing number of countries are adopting legislation and regulations requiring a variety of websites to be accessible. Further, commercial interests suggest that a website that is fully accessible and usable by all visitors would increase revenues. This paper will review the basic concepts of web accessibility and discuss the challenges of implementing accessibility into existing CMS, using Mambo CMS as a case study.
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March 14th, 2008The W3C's WAI's WCAG are just starting points. They are guidelines, to point us in the right direction. But they are not the be-all and end-all in terms of providing an accessible site. Some of the guidelines are useful, others are missing. And then there are those guidelines that are good in theory, but implementation leaves a lot to be desired. This is another case where human understanding of the issues is important.
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March 1st, 2008I have heard people say that they won't bother implementing accessibility on their site because no matter what they do, they can't make the site work for everyone in every situation. They are right, there is likely to be someone facing barriers on a site, at some point, because their disability has not been catered for. But their conclusion is wrong - the idea is to implement as much accessibility as possible. We can build accessibility into a site incrementally. WCAG 1.0 is presented that way, with three levels of compliance.
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February 14th, 2008It is not only knowledge of the accessibility guidelines that is important. One must understand them as well, and understand what are the underlying issues. If we go about implementing each guideline without understanding why we're doing what we do, we risk ending up with pages that are meeting the guidelines, but that are not accessible!
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