<div dir="ltr">So I actually work with Drupal and have some experience wrt accessibility at the University. I'll be at coffee hour tomorrow if anyone wants to chat more about Drupal and accessibility - some tools for WCAG compliance - contrast tools (how they are not working great) and what we are doing at the W3c wrt accessibility and how you can get involved. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 2:30 PM, der.hans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PLUGd@lufthans.com" target="_blank">PLUGd@lufthans.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 19. May, 2017 schwätzte der.hans so:<br>
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moin moin,<br>
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and another device popped up.<br>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/+adafruit/posts/6NH2VfeutQ1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+adafr<wbr>uit/posts/6NH2VfeutQ1</a><br>
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ciao,<br>
<br>
der.hans<div><div class="h5"><br>
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Am 29. Apr, 2017 schwätzte Eric Oyen so:<br>
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moin moin,<br>
<br>
a post about a real-time braille converter from MIT reminds me that I<br>
didn't report back on the demo for the accessible web-authoring tool.<br>
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Here's the braille converter post.<br>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/+adafruit/posts/eLygbwBhra2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+adafr<wbr>uit/posts/eLygbwBhra2</a><br>
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The demo ended up using WordPress and was well received. The committee was<br>
impressed, but it will be some time before an official response is given.<br>
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Thanks again for the feedback. It was quite helpful.<br>
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ciao,<br>
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der.hans<br>
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well, here is a suggestion from one of the blind users of Linux who does a lot of web authoring.. Der Hands, you got this one?<br>
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-eric<br>
from the central office of the Technomage Huild, Datasphere projects office<br>
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From: Linux for blind general discussion <<a href="mailto:blinux-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">blinux-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Fwd: accessible web-authoring system<br>
Date: April 29, 2017 4:20:51 AM MST<br>
To: <a href="mailto:blinux-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">blinux-list@redhat.com</a><br>
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Tony Baechler here. I'm sure others will chime in, but here are my thoughts:<br>
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1. The most accessible is plain, static HTML. Obviously not practical for large sites, but for a few pages, it's good enough.<br>
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2. WordPress is the most popular. It's generally very accessible. There are things which could be made better, but it's good enough to design decent sites. I ran a podcast with it.<br>
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3. Drupal is also very good, but the latest major release (8.0.X) is very difficult to use and far from accessible unless I missed something obvious. I had it running on a server and it was so bad that I gave up. 7.X should be better, but will reach end of life in a year or two and only gets bug and security fixes.<br>
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Joomla is very inaccessible and should absolutely be avoided. I couldn't do anything with it, but that was a long time ago. The key is if the admin interface is accessible or not. I would go with WordPress due to the huge number of themes, frequent updates and overall decent accessibility.<br>
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Another option is wiki software. There are a lot of wiki packages out there. I liked ikiwiki when I looked at it. It obviously depends on the site you're designing. Of the above, I think only ikiwiki is fully accessible with a text browser, but WordPress is tolerable. You can do most functions with wp-cli if you like the command line. Drupal has drush, but I couldn't get it to work. WordPress is much easier to upgrade and can do minor updates itself.<br>
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On 4/28/2017 3:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:<br>
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hey guys,<br>
I forwarded this over from the Phoenix Linux Users Group. Perhaps one of us can help out?<br>
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-eric<br>
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From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com><br>
Subject: accessible web-authoring system<br>
Date: April 28, 2017 12:32:48 PM MST<br>
To: quatsch <<a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.o<wbr>rg</a>><br>
Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.o<wbr>rg</a>><br>
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moin moin,<br>
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anyone have experience with an accessible Free Software web-authoring<br>
system?<br>
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A friend works in accessibiilty ( all sorts of physical and mental<br>
handicaps ) and is asking for a recommendation.<br>
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I presume Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress have plugins to help, but I have<br>
no experience. The closest thing I have to experience is demos from some<br>
blind guys using emacs for their own infrastructure. Amazing, but not the<br>
first thing to suggest.<br>
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