Fwd: accessible web-authoring system

[Eric Oyen]

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


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> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: accessible web-authoring system
> Date: April 29, 2017 4:20:51 AM MST
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
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> 
> 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" <PLUGd at LuftHans.com>
>>> Subject: accessible web-authoring system
>>> Date: April 28, 2017 12:32:48 PM MST
>>> To: quatsch <PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>>> Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
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