Re: Blog platform information request

Hi Kieran,

Your questions are excellent. The work of the W3C aims to be practical and
achievable, but as you noticed it is weighted toward bespoke development.

Your time is limited, and you're looking for a first step that you won't
later regret. We webby folks would call this an "architecture" decision. A
good responsible choice is indeed WordPress with one of its accessible
themes (marked as such in the catalog). Be wary of WordPress plug-ins. What
you create on this platform will not be perfect the first time, but with
some attention to detail (which you've already demonstrated), the result
will be good and any remaining problems will be fixable.

You mentioned "blog" and also a more open-ended "web presence." If you must
launch tonight instead of next week, then we're talking about a "site
builder", and the best you're likely to get for accessibility is "less bad"
(and mostly not fixable, unless the company fixes it for everyone). Wix
started investing in accessibility in 2018, a reasonable choice if your
time is extremely limited.

To the accessibility SMEs here: I've written these recommendations hoping
that (1) others here can correct me and (2) this conversation will help a
thousand other people with authoring tool needs like Kieran's.

Mitchell Evan
+1 (510) 375-6104
mtchllvn@gmail.com
Twitter: @mitchellrevan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellrevan/

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 4:05 PM Kieran de Leon-Horton <
krdeleon.peralta@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Apologies if I'm not requesting properly, this is my first email to the
> list.
>
> I'm a documentary filmmaker based in LA starting a very small project
> centered around food and food security. As part of that I was starting to
> anticipate the growth of the project and think about its web presence.
>
> Towards that end, I've been going through W3C as best I'm able but find
> myself a bit overwhelmed and wondering if I'm asking the right questions
> much less how to find the right answers. Among other things I'm planning to
> work through the 5 module online course but also was wondering if anyone
> can answer this question:
>
> Does anyone have any pointers or recommendations for any off-the-shelf
> blogging platforms that are more accessibility compliant than others?
>
> I found this thread
> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2017AprJun/0100.html>
> from 2017 about WordPress specifically but was wondering if WordPress is
> the only game in town or if there are other, better alternatives?
>
> I understand the best option would probably be a bespoke website but as
> mentioned, this is the very beginning of what's currently a no-budget
> project and I'm hoping to do what I can with what's available at the
> moment. I'm very new to the idea of any web presence, much less one with
> requirements largely new to me so any guidance and/or resources is much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kieran dLH
>