About Accessible CMS

Accessible CMS is an independent editorial publication on web accessibility, with a particular focus on Australian context: the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Australian government digital services, and the procurement frameworks used in Commonwealth and state agencies. We publish guides, run audits, and host a resource library used by academic, advocacy and policy organisations.

Who runs the site

Accessible CMS was founded in 2019 by Mara Konstantatos, an accessibility specialist working out of Sydney. Mara worked previously in user research and accessibility roles in the not-for-profit and public sectors, including with organisations in the aged-care advocacy and disability-services spaces. The editorial scope of the site reflects that background.

The site is small and deliberately so. We work with a small group of contributing reviewers who bring specific specialisations (cognitive accessibility, screen reader testing, document accessibility), but the main editorial work and the audit reviews are done in-house.

Editorial position

Accessible CMS does not sell software, does not accept paid placements, and does not run advertising. We accept paid commercial audits as our primary income, and we publish editorial guidance and the audited-sites list as a resource for the broader practitioner community. Where our editorial work covers products or platforms, we audit them ourselves rather than rely on vendor-supplied materials.

What we cover

The published material falls into three buckets: practical implementation guides (mobile, forms, colour, screen readers, PDFs), comparative reviews (such as the CMS audit and the sites we have audited), and the legal and procurement context (the DDA compliance page). The WCAG 2.2 page sits across all three: it is the closest thing the site has to a definitional reference.

The resource library

We host a resource library at accessiblecms.com.au/resources, currently 70+ documents from partner organisations including the Older Persons Advocacy Network, the Seniors Rights Service, the Zoe Belle Gender Collective and Local Government NSW. The library exists because accessible publishing infrastructure for not-for-profit and advocacy organisations is, despite the obvious need, scarce. We host these documents at stable URLs, and we maintain accessibility conformance for new additions per PDF/UA-1.

Where we are not

We are not a software vendor. The site name reflects an editorial position (we cover content management system accessibility) rather than a product offering. We are also not a legal practice; the DDA compliance page is general guidance and not legal advice.

Get in touch

The contact page covers commercial audit enquiries, editorial questions, library hosting requests, and corrections to existing pages. Editorial corrections are welcome and we publish substantive corrections with a date stamp on the affected page.