[TYPO3] Accessibility: Typo3 vs other CMS

[Tyler Kraft]

Yes, kind of, except that said bus in the UK needs to accommodate 
roughly 65million people at any possible time, and a lot of those 
65million people might have a disability. So if we say only 1/1000 of 
those people have a disability, they still constitute a large amount of 
the population. And they are often likely to be employed which means 
their work environment must be accessible. And last time I checked the 
point of a CMS was so that people could publish information online - 
they don't need to have sight, or hearing, or even arms in order to 
write copy well....

Obviously a possible work force of 65000 people can't be excluded. But 
its worse than that even, in the fact that there are 45 million people 
in the EU with disabilities[1]. Imagine that we're going to continue to 
ignore the fact that they might have a very very hard time making use of 
this CMS. Add onto this fact that the population is ageing and they 
might start to find the BE harder to use or to make more usable for 
there specific age related issue. We will have a hard time justifying 
why this product isn't accessible, especially as other competing 
products will become accessible.

We either accept the idea that we need to take accessibility into 
account or there will come a day when we're left behind by other CMS' 
that do take it into account. Several of our most recent large jobs have 
asked how accessible the back end of typo3 is already. And this isn't 
limited to the UK, it is the law in the US and I think in the EU also, 
that the website must be accessible... Not sure they would take kindly 
to a web authoring tool that's not accessible

[1] 
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/accessibility/z-techserv-web/index_en.htm

Just my 2c.




Bernd Wilke wrote:

> just my 2cent:
> 
> it sounds like building a bus in mass-production which is accesible by
> every(!) impaired. And don't think the impaired are passengers. the bus
> should be driven by the impaired.
> 
> Bernd