[Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site
Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO
susan.stanzel at kcc.usda.gov
Wed Aug 25 19:38:23 UTC 2010
That is exactly why I brought this up. I have consistently attended our meetings of the Web committee at our conventions.
Susie
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From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:33 PM
To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site
Good afternoon everyone,
Content management systems are a mixed bag for the blind. Several years
ago I had the chance to work with the CMS that our national office uses for
managing NFB Web sites. We found that although one could enter text as if it
was being entered in to a word document there were accessibility problems.
For example one could select a block of text on witch to perform an
operation but if one move the cursor to the controls to add highlights,
change the font type, etc the text was deselected. There were other
accessibility issues discovered with that system as well. I'm not sure if
any progress has been made to remedy these issues.
A number of blind people use Drupal successfully however one must use
HTML markup for creating and formatting Web content.
I recently became aware of another CMS developed by an Australian
company and marketed by Adobe called "Business Catalyst." One of my paying
clients is interested in using this CMS for her Web site. I checked with the
technology folks at our national office to see if they've played with it. So
far they haven't checked it out to evaluate its accessibility and usability
by the blind. This will be a project for me to persue later this year after
we move and are settled in to our new place. Hope this helps.
Peter Donahue
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From: "Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO" <susan.stanzel at kcc.usda.gov>
To: "NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List" <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site
Do you know how these work with screen readers? I would suggest talking with
Gary Wunder the chairman of the Web committee. He can best explain what
other affiliates are doing. If you like I will persue that.
Susie
From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:50 PM
To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site
Hey Floyd,
I was actually thinking that a content management system would be a great
idea for the affiliate website.
In short this would be a system that would allow authorized people to make
content postings without having to worry about formatting and stuff. This
would allow us to develop a design once and then focus on content
generation/delivery in a fashion not unlike wikipedia (though with much
better access controls and without everybody seeing an "edit" link).
This would also help with the "one webmaster" problem and allow the many
people in our affiliate who are great at creating content to more easily
leverage their skills.
Examples of these systems include:
http://www.scribus.net/ (using drupal) and
http://berkeley.edu/ (running TikiWiki)
These are very simple to install as they simply require put a few files on
the server just like a regular web page, and could be maintained fairly
easily.
I think it would make building/maintaining/updating the site a lot slicker
and make it easier to integrate some of our other projects like posting our
newsletter, meeting minutes and/or convention media.
If your interested I can use my old netbook to put together a demo of a
couple of these packages for state convention so people can get a feel for
what it would look like and how it might work.
Just a thought.
--
Andrew Chapman
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