[Typo3-dev] Looking for (study-) project

[Robert Markula]

Markus Stauffiger wrote:
> Hi Dev-List
> 
> As I've already told Kasper and Robert I'm looking for interessting projects
> to improve typo3. The project would be realized as a part of my computer
> sience study together with a couple of co-students. (~170h/student)
> 
> Spontanous I've got these two ideas:
> - Improving the backend usability
> - System to have a live- and production server
> 
> We're very eager to hear about your ideas!

Hi Markus,
How about making Typ3 (the Frontend plus the most used extensions - 
thinking of indexed search, forms et al - as well as the Backend, at 
least as far as it can be done) fully accessible and XHTML strict 
compliant? I don't know if this fits well in your idea because it may 
not appear very prestigious - you don't "produce" something "new", but 
it may actually help a lot of people that are otherwise forgotten most 
times.
Also with more and more governments requiring (and many companies 
beginning to become sensible to) accessible websites, this may really 
become a huge selling point for Typo3. Think about the good resonance in 
the media that Typo3 got when 3.6 became "XHTML transitional" compliant. 
Up until today no open source/freeware CMS besides Plone and Typo3 
claims to be xhtml transitional compliant. Even most commerial CMSes 
don't offer xhtml trans/strict compliancy plus accessibility 
out-of-the-box. So here's where Typo3 could really score very well.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this,
Ro