A question for folks who *aren't* developers:
What would be the most important things/qualities for you in a website/page builder? Specifically, in the kind of builder that lets you build in some limited amount of interactivity (like forum functionality).
Developers, sit this one out please. Boosting is of course appreciated, though.
@joepie91 Accessibility features! If you’re making things interactive I’d love to have that be inclusive from the start. As a disabled user that’s frustrating me a lot with free/low cost build your own website makers.
@gullvinge Hmm, could you elaborate on some of the common issues you run into with (the output of) those existing website makers? To make sure I'm not missing anything.
@joepie91 Sure!
I'm a partially sighted disability advocate bridging many types of physical / cognitive etc disabilities.
In short: Inaccessible CMS (incorrect tags/semantics, low contrasts that are unable to be easily changed)
Output of code is the wrong semantics (screenreaders depends on this)
Not able to customise the language title tag (again, screenreaders depend on this, as well as SEO)
No easily locatable alt text boxes.
@joepie91 The working assumption seems to be that audiences may be disabled, devs or content aren't, so the front/backends have different levels of accessibilities.
Made me give up on easy-use resources such as wordpress altogether (wordpress has some accessible themes, whereas the CMS remains clunky, cognitively.)
@joepie91 I'm also someone who is very impatient with my tech. I don't have the patience for a lot of mucking around. Either it works, or it doesn't :p Just to give you some perspective on where I'm coming from. I can't troubleshoot; don't know how.
