I would like to go myself, but I am in need of a ride from the west side. There are just times when I hate living so far away from the center of things. -eric From the central office of the Technomage Guild, Dept of monorail development. On May 24, 2017, at 10:38 PM, Kaoru Wilbur wrote: > 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. > > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 2:30 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 19. May, 2017 schwätzte der.hans so: > > moin moin, > > and another device popped up. > > https://plus.google.com/+adafruit/posts/6NH2VfeutQ1 > > ciao, > > der.hans > > > Am 29. Apr, 2017 schwätzte Eric Oyen so: > > moin moin, > > a post about a real-time braille converter from MIT reminds me that I > didn't report back on the demo for the accessible web-authoring tool. > > Here's the braille converter post. > > https://plus.google.com/+adafruit/posts/eLygbwBhra2 > > The demo ended up using WordPress and was well received. The committee was > impressed, but it will be some time before an official response is given. > > Thanks again for the feedback. It was quite helpful. > > ciao, > > der.hans > > 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? > > -eric > from the central office of the Technomage Huild, Datasphere projects office > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Linux for blind general discussion > Subject: Re: Fwd: accessible web-authoring system > Date: April 29, 2017 4:20:51 AM MST > To: blinux-list@redhat.com > Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com > > Tony Baechler here. I'm sure others will chime in, but here are my thoughts: > > 1. The most accessible is plain, static HTML. Obviously not practical for large sites, but for a few pages, it's good enough. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > On 4/28/2017 3:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > hey guys, > I forwarded this over from the Phoenix Linux Users Group. Perhaps one of us can help out? > > -eric > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "der.hans" > Subject: accessible web-authoring system > Date: April 28, 2017 12:32:48 PM MST > To: quatsch > Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list > > moin moin, > > anyone have experience with an accessible Free Software web-authoring > system? > > A friend works in accessibiilty ( all sorts of physical and mental > handicaps ) and is asking for a recommendation. > > I presume Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress have plugins to help, but I have > no experience. The closest thing I have to experience is demos from some > blind guys using emacs for their own infrastructure. Amazing, but not the > first thing to suggest. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@red > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.PhxLinux.org/ > # Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- > # I took the one less traveled by, > # And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost > # I, OTOH, prefer to just go stomping through the desert... - der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss