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New web site, new opportunities: enforcing standards compliance within a content management system

Kane, David F. and Hegarty, Nora (2007) New web site, new opportunities: enforcing standards compliance within a content management system. Library Hi Tech 25(2).

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Abstract

This is an account of a library project undertaken by the web team at Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries in Summer 2005. The project involved the redeployment and re-design of the library web site on web content management software. The sets out the context for the project, first by explaining what a content management system is and does and second, by outlining prevailing trends in the wider world towards both standards-compliant code and web accessibility/usability. This paper shows how a content management system can help a library to reach the goals of good accessibility and web standards compliance.

Keywords:Web accessibility, usability, web standards, XHTML, CSS, legal
Subjects:L. Information technology and library technology. > LC. Internet, including WWW.
ID Code:11557
Deposited By:Kane, David F.
Deposited On:04 October 2007
Alternative Locations:http://eprints.wit.ie/293/
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