Alterian system features web accessibility checker

Alterian has announced the availability of version 5.9.5 of its Alterian Content Manager - Enterprise Edition.

Version 5.9.5 is said to offer new features and technical enhancements to organisations that wish to build engaging, relevant and accessible websites that comply with legislation.

An advanced standards-compliant accessibility checker allows web content to be validated using more than 200 checks against the latest W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

The WCAG documents explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities.

Version 5.9.5 also offers improved features for sorting and ordering items both inside the editorial interface as well as on published websites, allowing business users easier control over relevance and order of published content items.

A number of features typically performed by power users have been added to the editorial interface to allow these users to carry out specific tasks without the need to switch to the administrative interface.

The web-based editorial interface has been augmented to include features such as a graphical workflow representation, more advanced searching and assigning specific access rights on websites' branches.

In addition, enhancements were made to Page Studio within Alterian Content Manager that allows users to design web pages based on prebuilt blocks of functionality ('components') without the need for any technical or html knowledge.

Components include items such as Google Maps, a log-in form and polls, for example.

Additions to Page Studio include the ability to automatically generate configuration forms for components that need specific parameters, undo and redo functionality and smart cell placement, which anticipates where users want to drop certain components on the page.

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