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Listening to a webcast of an interview with Alexander Limi about accessibility concerns in Plone and how it was built into Plone from the beginning. It turns out that by building Plone to standards they inadvertently made Plone mostly accessible. After they saw how some disabled users were able to use Plone without having previously thought about it, the development team made a conscious decision to persue and improve accessibility as a core development value in Plone. As a nice aside, he slams the AJAX craze.

There is a summary at webstandards.org http://www.webstandards.org/2006/09/02/accessibility-webcast-on-plone/. For the full webcast, checkout The National Center on Access and Education’s full webcast: Accessibility and the Open Source Content Management Movement.