It is hard to create and manage an accessible website without a set of tools fit for the Job. Luckily for us, more and more web design applications and content management systems are waking up to the fact that accessible web design is here to stay.

Search Google for ‘Accessible Content Management Systems’ – and you will find that there are now plenty to choose from. A good sign that a CMS will be accessible is if they use XStandard as their WYSWYG – as it creates valid markup code for any new content you create or edit.

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Working with non-profits, charities, voluntary and public sector organisations and social enterprises for over 20 years. Jim set up one of the worlds first website accessibility web agencies in the mid 1990s.