[oats-sig] Accessible wiki

I looked into this a while back when researching what wiki to setup, so I'm
out of date.

At the time I picked DokuWiki and still like it (it comes with
sort-of-wysiwyg).

As well as accessibility per-se, you need to consider usability of the
interface... I, personally and anecdotally, find mediawiki/wikepedia hard to
use/understand, especially on a non-encyclopedia based site. Be interested
to see some usability comparisons...

I have to say, my experience of trying to get participation in WIKI's isn't
great - I think they work best in very techy computer-based groups where
people understand net etiquette. 

RE Accessibility/compliance:  

It doesn't even appear as a category here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

There used to be a comparison table that included it, but now it points to:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Obviously, you have to get one which chucks out compliant code, and an
editor that tidies the html.  As for user-generated content, this is
essentially impossible to make compliant without human editing - however if
you get to the point where you have to worry about this, you've done well!

Just my tuppenth.

Cheers.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Rasiewicz
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:38 PM
To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
Subject: Re: [oats-sig] Accessible wiki

Unsure about accessibility features but I would recommend MediaWiki with
FCKeditor plugin for wysiwyg editing.

We've used Twiki as a proof of concept a few years ago in the company I work
for.

When it came to actual deployment we went with MediaWiki as it was the only
one we managed to integrate with Active Directory - it also had a better
reputation in terms of scalability and bug-fixes release cycle (wikipedia
using it and all ..)

One thing MediaWiki really lacks out of the box is wysiwyg editing.
There is a commercial product based MediaWiki from www.socialtext.com which
does it and more.

FCKeditor MediaWiki plugin appears to be working reasonably well (haven't
used it before)
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/FCKeditor_integration_guide
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Main_Page

Then there is also wikiwig.sourceforge.net - but I don't think it's based on
mediawiki

r.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:

	This is really a FAQ but does anyone have strong opinion about the
	most accessible Wiki to self host?

	MediaWIki is good AFAIK and Twiki sounds possible (Simon Judge was
it
	Twiki or Tiki that you used before).

	Any suggestion based on real world experience using accessibility
	features and/or AT to access? What about ensuring the accessibility
of
	user generated content?

	Thanks

	--
	Steve Lee
	--
	Open Source Assistive Technology Software
	web: fullmeasure.co.uk
	blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog

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