Open Source Solutions

Mugshot is an open project sponsored by Red Hat to create live social experiences around entertainment. The Mugshot site lets you track what your friends are doing online - music, photos, blog posts, and more. We're also exploring an idea called Online Desktop.

How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?

The Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT), which is based in the headquarters of the National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI), looked at several popular CMSs in order to assess which would be most suitable: Jadu, Mambo, Joomla, Quick and Easy, Expression Engine, Plone, Drupal, Textpattern, Xoops and Typo3.

Expert Screen Reader Evaluation by Paul Traynor CFIT.
Author: Joshue O Connor Senior Accessibility Consultant CFIT
Juicy Studio, March 2007

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data, PHP 4.1.0 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also offers a Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with LDAP support, a news-system, user-tracking, language modules, enhanced automatic content negotiation, accessible XHTML based templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system and an easy to use installation script.

The Drupal Open Source content management and community development platform is a powerful Web 2.0 system that is being used to facilitate distributed teams, publish blogs, host communities, and serve thousands of Internet websites.
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by Larry Cannell, Collaboration Loop

For the first time on the Microsoft platform a free user and developer friendly cms that makes it quick and easy to create websites - or a breeze to build complex web applications.
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