Content Management and accessibility - check this

What I am doing when it's a such beautiful day outside ? I am coding like mad and I just finished the first release of my accessible version of Scoilnet, the Irish portal for education.

Well to make it shorter, in two words Text Version link on the top of each page. Seems simple, but hey not that simple.

I use dScribe, my other pet project, as the main CMS to control the content of Scoilnet, and boy this has given me the best help to finalise the accessible version.

So two main things happens now to create an automatic text version.

1: In dScribe, every time someone submit a piece of content, a text only version is stored in a field of the same name. In the front end I just need then to display the proper field

2: If the content type is an article, then I do the text version transformation from the front end directly. I imagine articles can be quite long text and storing twice the content in the database could be a waste of space.

Of course I cache the data so the system is finally quite fast and reliable.

If you are interested let me know, I can write an article on that. Anyway the next version of dScribe 2.0 will include this accessible system and the front end assembly (dScribeFE helper) too.