Re: Drupal and Microsoft CMS Options?

  • From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:43:09 -0500

Hi Gang: Jim, I don't know just yet. My preference would be to just learn 
whatever Jamal is doing but I am now thinking of putting up some sites for some 
blind folks so their sites are kept up to date and work well with screen 
readers so I am not sure about the scope of my involvement. It might be Drupal 
based or, more likely if really accessible, something in the Microsoft venu 
since I am familiar with their DB stuff and coding websites using various ASP 
Controls and Server Side coding technicals.  For development I might use one of 
the packages Jacques or Katherine mentioned but I can start reading up on them 
to get some color on what this stuff is all about.
Hay, Jacques, are you French? If so, are you from across the pond?
Later and thanks for the ideas to explore.
Rick Farmington Michigan USA
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Katherine Moss 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:19 AM
  Subject: RE: Drupal and Microsoft CMS Options?


  Look at both Umbraco and Mojo Portal.  

   

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RicksPlace
  Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 8:01 AM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Drupal and Microsoft CMS Options?

   

  Hi: I know very little about CMS. As a result of Jamal using it, I have 
looked at some of the Drupal docs by googling but am having trouble wrapping my 
head around exactly how it all works since I am an old Microsoft user. I am 
trying to figure out a similar option in the Microsoft World. So far I think 
that Sharepoint and Open Office, both 2010 versionws with accessibility, sound 
like they are the Microsoft counterpart to Drupal. does this sound about right? 
Since they support ARIA and the other new Web Standards, or at least some 
articles say they do, has anyone tried them out? If there is another Microsoft 
thingy where it looks or works sort of a CMS with DB storage and perhaps Media 
support could you mention it so I can do a little more digging?

  It looks like allot of blind folks are trying to use various CMS Websites and 
most of them are pretty bad. They also sound almost as complex to create and 
maintain as a standard Website developed in something like VWD. Anyway, thanks 
for any input you provide on CMS, Drupal or any Microsoft counterpart products 
that I can research a little more.

  Again, the Microsoft 2010 versions of the Open Office and Sharepoint are 
suppose to be accessible where the older versions were not very accessible if 
that helps. 

  Rick USA

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