Fwd: accessible web-authoring system

[Kaoru Wilbur]

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 <PLUGd at lufthans.com> 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 <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
>>>> Reply-To: blinux-list at 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" <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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