[Chester LUG] Your help required!

[David Holden]

On Monday 24 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm involved in a project with a local charity that is aiming to improve
> the standard of living for visually impaired people with technology.  One
> part of the project has been to create a best practice guide for
> organisations to create fully accessible websites based on a CMS.  We have
> chosen Joomla for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because it is
> Open Source.
>

Just curious, why Joomla? as opposed to Drupal,  CMS, modx....

 Dave.


> The charity is currently developing their own website as an example of a
> fully accessible website and we're looking for some volunteers to donate a
> little bit of their time and skills to the project.  The site is structured
> in a modular format and we need various modules developing.  All of these
> modules are reasonably simple, but will help build a good example of a
> website that is open to all.
>
> All work will be released as Open Source code and will also be included
> with the best practice guide (which will be freely available) so it can
> help others create their sites.  On a side note, it will also help promote
> Open Source software to organisations that may not have previously
> considered it.  The project is going to be presented to a variety of
> companies, technical and non-technical and will be receiving some media
> publicity. Anyone who helps develop a module will receive full credit on
> the website.
>
> So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate some
> time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact with me and
> I'll provide you with some more information.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Les



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