[Web4lib] CMS or something else?

[Francis Kayiwa]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1


On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Tyson Tate wrote:

> On 9/1/06, Francis Kayiwa <kayiwa at uic.edu> wrote:
>
>> http://plone.org
>
> Plone does, indeed, look very nice. The introductory videos have
> piqued my interest and I'll have to add that to my "things to look in
> to" list.
>
>> 508 compliance on bottom left of the page.
>
> Simply validating against an accessibility spec doesn't mean your
> content is actually accessible. Does it check if your links are
> descriptive (and if they don't, do they have a proper title
> attribute?). Does it prevent misuse of <strong> and <em> (i.e. adding
> <strong> simply to make something bold instead of to indicate it's
> semantic meaning)? There's so much more to accessibility than what the
> online tools check against.

Your original question did not include this. Only said accessibility.  
FWIW you can spend time before hitting publish ensuring that it meets  
all your demands above.

How about this?

User creates content.
CMS ensures 508 compliance
Web Admin team goes through it to make sure it meets all your demands.
Pushes "Publish" button

>
> In addition, I'm unclear of how the WYSIWYG editors of many CMSs will
> make sure that, to take en example from my library's new site,
> librarians will properly markup MLA citations instead of just wrapping
> things with <u> and <em>. Will they allow the use of arbitrary
> XHTML/CSS blocks? For instance, our new site has blocks called "promo
> boxes" that require a few divs and an h2 tag to work properly. All of
> the WYSIWYG tools I know of wouldn't allow people to add that element
> in without dropping in to code. If anyone knows of a tool that allows
> such, let me know! Such a tool would be a godsend for me.

submit patch.

exit stage left.

regards,
./fxk

===============
Francis Kayiwa
Library Systems Team
4-180, MC 234
T: +1.312.996.2716
W: http://www.uic.edu/~kayiwa
Key: http://tigger.uic.edu/~kayiwa/kayiwa.gpg


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFE+KAFN+YGKSXdLhkRAn+vAJ9lRjZgF7te8bob5SE8dQYBXo9aAQCeOzUN
4PsGogVxK2gZ9WEK52vn7R4=
=Nb99
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----