With Macromedia Contribute 3, you can make simple updates to your website without being a professional web designer. Contribute makes sure updates are accessible to people with disabilities – just one more way Contribute makes publishing easier.
Macromedia Contribute offers a unique set of tools that allows website administrators to establish and maintain site accessibility. Accessibility is directly integrated into Contribute. Thus, website administrators can modify accessibility settings to specify whether content contributors should use HTML or CSS for text formatting, and requiring text descriptions for images, identification of data-table heading. In this way, content contributors don’t need advanced technical knowledge to meet rigorous accessibility standards such as the Priority 2 Checkpoints of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Accessible Templates
Macromedia Contribute enables website administrators to provide content authors with specific accessible templates that contain authoring privileges for each individual content contributor. By starting with accessible templates, content authors are guided by prompts to accessible pages. Website administrators can make their own accessible templates, or use one of the many templates that come with Contribute.
Accessibility Prompts
Macromedia Contribute prompts users to provide accessibility information at exactly the same time that they insert content on the page. As content contributors add images and tables, Contribute asks them to supply the necessary description and header information, thus eliminating the need to open dialog boxes to find the appropriate fields. By making it automatic and easy to provide the necessary information, Contribute ensures the content will be as accessible as possible.
Formatting Text
Websites that meet W3C Priority 2 checkpoints provide enhanced flexibility and power to view content for users with disabilities. Increasingly, accessibility policies require the use of CSS. Macromedia Contribute allows the website administrator to easily change a web page’s text formatting from HTML to CSS. The change is not apparent to the content contributor, as the font, text size, and bold and italics formatting tools remain exactly the same. This feature significantly reduces the training requirements for creating accessible pages using CSS.
Accessible Workspace
Macromedia Contribute is itself accessible as an authoring tool. Contribute is compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS and Window-Eyes and allows users to activate all options using the keyboard. Thus, Contribute is the ideal tool for content authors with disabilities to create, maintain, and edit web content.
