As part of a project at university i would like to customise FCKEditor to produce accessible content and was wondering whether anybody has already done anything towards achieving this. I would also appreciate someone being able to tell me where in the code the HTML object creation code is so i can see how accessible the content is already.
Mon, 12/06/2004 - 13:25
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RE: Uccessible version of FCKEditor
The last three tags I've integrated for a project of mine - a little bit hacky but works. I will try tonight to give provide you some needed parts and hints how to integrate these. One big problem is, that IE doesn't recoginze the abbr-Tag, so i abused the ins-Tag which is inserted instead of abbr - on saving, I parse the source and replace the ins-Tag by a combination of span and abbr - not perfect, but we can work with.
RE: Uccessible version of FCKEditor
So, I packed the files needed, you can find them there: http://www.martinkurz.com/files/accessibility.zip
In the package, there's a readme how you can integrate it. It's just tested on Windows2000 IE 6 because that's the system, all my users are working on.
In this way, it should be possible, to integrate other functions as well. I think, it surely isn't the best method, but it's working for my needs )
Hope, that helps.
RE: Uccessible version of FCKEditor
Any progress toward this? I am interested in continuing to use FCKEditor on our campus but cannot until it meets accessibility guidelines.
RAD editor by Telerik costs money, but it adheres to XHTML of version selected by user (strict, transitional, etc.). This is what is needed for FCK as well. The depracated <font./> tag must go!
I'm interested in making use of some of the features of FCK but accessibility issues have to come first as a matter of legal considerations on a public university.
Mike