Welcome to The Plone Connection, a newsletter for Plonistas by Plonistas. Plone is a highly secure open source Content Management System (CMS) built on Python. Six Feet Up is the largest Plone consultancy in the USA.
In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 20th, Six Feet Up is offering a FREE accessibility check of your app/website. Our expert developers will test your app/website and provide recommendations to help make it accessible to more users. Email carol@sixfeetup.com to claim this offer - a $600 value!
Plone News📰
Episode 6 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features Franco Pellegrini, an independent Plone consultant and Plone Framework team member.
Sixies Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Kim Nguyen and Annette Lewis had a lively discussion about "Accessibility On The Web" with IndyPy — Indiana's largest Python meetup. The expert panel reviewed Plone.org, tested tools, shared news and discussed user stories. Watch the video and read the Meetup notes.
It’s best practice to debug or develop against the same content that is in production, but what should you do if there’s a limited amount of space to work with and the full production data can’t be pulled down? You can use Zope’s export/import. Learn how to use .zexp.
Under the Plone Hood🛠
Getting Started with Volto Customization
David Bain discusses how a beginner could use Volto, a React-based technology, to customize a Plone site. In this video learn how to generate/read a Volto app and how to craft additional customizations and add-on features.
Plone Community Questions 😲
"How does Plone handle accessibility?"
Plone was the first Content Management System (CMS) to be compliant with W3C’s WAI-AA and U.S. Government’s Section 508 standards for sight and motor impaired users. It is also accessible to content authors with disabilities per the level 'AA' Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG 2.0).
Some of Plone’s accessibility features include:
Access Keys set up to closely match most international recommendations
HTML5 Landmarks
Aria Attributes
Alt, Title and Captions fields on Image content
JavaScript fallbacks modes
Plone.org has published Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) documents detailing how it meets Section 508 standards for version 5.1 and 5.2. Visit Plone’s Accessibility page.
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