Bulletin board accessibility - still looking
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006In my last post I identified Vanilla as a strong candidate for the basis for an accessible forum. Sadly after several days fruitless work I’ve had to finally reject it for three reasons:
- It’s rather immature. The core lacks features. To get features common to most forums such as email notifications you have to load poorly documented extensions of variable quality.
- The default HTML is poorly structured. The author has rejected using tables in favour of using lists, which only makes sense when the data is naturally list-like. Many of the lists generated by his code make no sense when read as unstyled text.
- The code relies on AJAX, which currently cannot be considered accessible, as a recent very thorough article shows. To overcome this would require writing a fair amount of new code.
Consequently, I am still looking for a forum package that can be readily made accessible.
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