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Stuart
Smith The UK Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 means that Higher Education must ensure accessibility to the disabled. MIMAS offers a number of services through the World Wide Web (Web) of interest to Social Scientists, such as electronic journals and socio-economic data and these must meet legislative requirements. The myth of the Web is that anyone can produce high quality websites. However, the reality is that consistent, compatible Web sites that degrade gracefully for accessibility purposes can be very difficult to produce and even harder to maintain. MIMAS has to address the issue that its Social Sciences web services are maintained by Social Science experts not Web coders. To solve this problem MIMAS is considering the implementation of a Content Management System (CMS), such as ZOPE. This paper will investigate the challenges of changing to a CMS, with a particular focus on the effective separation of content and code. Stuart Smith, MIMAS,
Manchester Computing, |