Does anyone know how Accessible the Umbraco backend is?
I've been asked to quote for a site and they want the CMS (back end) to:
follwo the W3C's WAI ARIA guidelines at www.w3.org/tr/wai-aria-roadmap
I've never considered the accessibility of Rich Internet Apps before.
I'm off to look at this, but wondered if anyone has any experience with Umbraco's acceptance as a CMS where accessibility of the back end is required (It's a government funded site).
TIA
Tom
p.s. If I find anything specific, I will post my finding here, but it's a deal breaker for Umbraco in this case and I'm concerned about all the js code.
The Umbraco back office is not accessible and it's not something that's easy to do. I'd love to add an accessible UI to Umbraco, but it would be as a separate UI as there's a lot of short cuts and Ajax/dhtml 'tricks' that can't really be made accessible.
Having worked on many public sector websites in the past using numerous paid solutions like Mediasurface,Tridion,Immediacy,Site Server, MCMS, Stellent I have yet to come across a heavy duty CMS that has accessible back end.
Does your client potentially have special cms users that they need to cater for? The front end is accessible provided site creator has created valid html /css etc. We used to get tenders via SCAT who usually had in the features list accessible back end as nice to have but not mandatory. Although this was a couple of years ago.
On looking at the ARIA roadmap, it's become clear that there isn't anything to comply with at this stage. It appears to be all working drafts, and not even properly defined yet, so there's no way to comply with something that's not been defined. There's several references to XHTML2 and HTML5, so I don't think I need to worry about this for a while yet.
On a related topic, does anyone have experience of disabled users working with the Umbraco back end, maybe with screen readers, or other input devices. I know that the only text that resizes in IE6 is the content tree, but I'm not sure if there's other issues I need to be aware of, or how big as issue this really is.
I have decided to propose Umbraco for the project, and reference the Umbraco site for technical details. I'll also list a few other government sites I know are using Umbraco.
Umbraco backend and Accesibility
Does anyone know how Accessible the Umbraco backend is?
I've been asked to quote for a site and they want the CMS (back end) to:
follwo the W3C's WAI ARIA guidelines at www.w3.org/tr/wai-aria-roadmap
I've never considered the accessibility of Rich Internet Apps before.
I'm off to look at this, but wondered if anyone has any experience with Umbraco's acceptance as a CMS where accessibility of the back end is required (It's a government funded site).
TIA
Tom
p.s. If I find anything specific, I will post my finding here, but it's a deal breaker for Umbraco in this case and I'm concerned about all the js code.
The Umbraco back office is not accessible and it's not something that's easy to do. I'd love to add an accessible UI to Umbraco, but it would be as a separate UI as there's a lot of short cuts and Ajax/dhtml 'tricks' that can't really be made accessible.
Tom,
Having worked on many public sector websites in the past using numerous paid solutions like Mediasurface,Tridion,Immediacy,Site Server, MCMS, Stellent I have yet to come across a heavy duty CMS that has accessible back end.
Does your client potentially have special cms users that they need to cater for? The front end is accessible provided site creator has created valid html /css etc. We used to get tenders via SCAT who usually had in the features list accessible back end as nice to have but not mandatory. Although this was a couple of years ago.
Regards
Ismail
On looking at the ARIA roadmap, it's become clear that there isn't anything to comply with at this stage. It appears to be all working drafts, and not even properly defined yet, so there's no way to comply with something that's not been defined. There's several references to XHTML2 and HTML5, so I don't think I need to worry about this for a while yet.
On a related topic, does anyone have experience of disabled users working with the Umbraco back end, maybe with screen readers, or other input devices. I know that the only text that resizes in IE6 is the content tree, but I'm not sure if there's other issues I need to be aware of, or how big as issue this really is.
I have decided to propose Umbraco for the project, and reference the Umbraco site for technical details. I'll also list a few other government sites I know are using Umbraco.
Meant to say.
Thanks for the replies, I'll some of the comments in my proposal.
Tom
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