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Hidde de Vries edited this page Aug 12, 2019 · 7 revisions

I talked to people from various CMSes about how accessibility works in their organisation and what kind of resources/guidance could help them push accessibility forward.

WordPress

Drupal

Mike Gifford in WAI-ig mailing list:

We wanted to see that a person with a disability can install, develop, administer, edit, publish and view their site. In Drupal 8 we’ve improved upon the default accessibility in Drupal 7. Jumping to HTML5 & adding WAI-ARIA has helped a great deal, as most admin interfaces are considerably more complex than the static pages. Most other CMS’s haven’t really even thought about the accessibility of their admin tools.

Mike Gifford comment

Joomla

From their accessibility statement:

Joomla! should be an accessible tool and provide a solid out of the box base for building accessible websites.

Since the birth of Joomla, we have made efforts to make our software meet accessibility requirements. With Joomla! 4.0, our next milestone, we are determined to push further down the road to accessibility. With this in mind, we will strive to ensure full accessibility of all modern dynamic user interface elements. We will, first and foremost, ensure full accessibility of Joomla’s backend so that those with disabilities can use Joomla to create, administer and maintain sites in barrier-free

Umbraco

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