Attending presentation entitled "Content Management Systems II: Illinois Efforts Panel" by Tim Offenstein, Nicholas Hoyt, Robert Slater, and Jeremy Todd at the 2009 UIUC Web Accessibility Conference.  About 50 people in attendance.
  • Discussed the history of IT Access initiative at Illinois.  They found that several disparate groups on campus were reproducing the same effort of evaluating and selecting a CMS
  • OpenCMS used by library system, but this system was selected purely based on needs, not based upon size of support community.  Plus it has terrible accessibility.
  • Drupal used by Colleges of ACES and Education, Uni High, and a scattering of others.
    • Accessibility of Drupal based largely upon which theme you select and modify.
    • Some Drupal sites use a different theme for screen reader users.
    • Be sure to check the output of all contributed modules for accessibility concerns.