Total agreement with you there... it's really the large blocks of user fed formatted text that I'm thinking of though. Site formatting/ styling is easy to make accessible, it's those user input bits that can be problematic.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2004 14:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] Website accessibility in the UK Damian Watson wrote: > > > Nah, I use one called CleanFields that I got from devex a while back- > it's pretty good (not perfect!) and I lock down the editors quite > heavily so that users can't go nuts with crazy paving and what not. The > HTML produced is generally clean but I was wondering if there were other > methods out there- Paul, you mentioned your CMS is accessible, so how do > you handle this? Not sure if you were asking me or not (don't remember saying anything about accessibility on my CMS)... Anyway, the way I would go about it (in CF) is by ensuring that the content created by any user, goes into the correct place in the system, and can be used correctly by the system. An example: if you create a website with images (kinda basic I know), you create a CMS to administer and store all the images, and retrieve them as and when. Every time an image is retrieved, if there is meta-data stating what should go in the alt tag, then put it in. Otherwise, just put "[image]" or something. Basically, don't allow anyone to put in images to HTML except through specified interface (not even via FTP). We all know this is a little "pie-in-the-sky" but it's about the only way I know of ensuring accessibility with content editors who don't know about "standards". Let's face it, unless you block of all content editors from the layout of the site, you will ALWAYS have problems! Paul -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
