marbux wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 1:14 AM, Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Many CMSs look great
until they're installed and you find that a mouse is required or they
don't play nicely with Firefox and a screen reader.
A couple of resources:
<http://www.cmsmatrix.org/> is a site that has a CMS comparator
database. One of the parameters tracked is the W3C Accessibility
Guidelines conformance level. The caveat is that most of the
information in their database is submitted by the developers and I
have not always agreed with their accessibility ratings. E.g., if I
recall correctly Tikiwiki CMS was given a rating far higher than I
thought it deserved after I got it installed. But this was at least a
couple of years ago; Tikiwiki may well have improved in regard to
accessibility guidelines compliance in the meantime.
I would agree with you about tikiwiki. I had a good look at it. The
actual wiki pages were fine but it's the admin interface that's bad.
Joomla and Mambo are other examples. Joomla sites are fine with Lynxm
IE, etc although I don't think they're W3C compliant. It's the admin
interface that's useless. The developers have apparently no interest in
fixing it, at least for Joomla. Most of those types of W3C ratings are
for page accessibility and don't cover the admin interface at all. I
know of one that also claims 100% W3C compliance. It looked great, but
the admin interface requires Java. It gave instructions for installing
Java on Linux.
<http://www.opensourcecms.com/> is a site that has dozens of open
source CMS online demos, all in their default installation
configurations without any extra extensions. It's a good
try-before-you-decide tool, particularly for accessibility issues. On
the other hand, not every open source CMS is available for
test-driving there.
Do they let you look at the admin interfaces or just a default install?
Again, Joomla is great until you try to configure it. Thanks for both
sites, I'll give them a look.
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