- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:48:26 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Helle Bjarnø <hbj@visinfo.dk>
- cc: WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Hi Helle, the only things that make a big appearance in the archive recently are discussions of the evaluation of Lotus Domino/Notes - a content management system that is very widely used and well established (and therefore a good first case study). However, the ATAG is designed to apply to content management systems - I am about to start evaluation of another one which is provided as a web interface and for which the developers think they are probably fairly close to conformance to at least level A of ATAG. Among the things which are very important for content management systems are checkpoints 1.1 requiring that you can make anything accessible *somehow* 1.3 requiring that templates are themselves conformant to WCAG (at least to the conformance level the tool claims) 3.1 requiring that alternative information for multimedia is provided 3.5 requiring that tools keep information about alternatives along with media files and guidelines 6 and 7, requiring help and documentation systems to cover accessibility, and the software itself to be accessible, respectively. Hope that helps. If you have suggestions for how we can make it clearer that ATAG is designed to apply to these tools among others the group would be grateful to receive them. cheers Charles == On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Helle Bjarnø wrote: Hi Charles I write you directly as I'm not on the AU mailing list. If you think it's interesting you can forward my question to the list. Lately I've been talking to some Web design companies and they all talk about their own "homemade special designed for you" Content management system whish will make it SO easy for you and your colleges to put information on the company web site. Parts of the product are some (mainly word) templates and then some database generated stuff. I haven't actually seen any of these CMS products. My question and concern is if these CMS systems become more and more common in web design how can we/you guarantee compliance with any guidelines WCAG, AU??? I've looked through the last 2 Q of the AU archive, with no success of finding any comments on this. Should I have looked in the IG archive? Best wishes Helle -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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