MaX 4.0 CMS
MaXessibility
MaX 4.0 accessible content management system enables blind and vision impaired computer-users to create and maintain a personal website.
All websites created with MaX are accessible as well - in accordance with the W3C accessibility guidelines - and still visually attractive to fully-sighted users.
That’s what we call MaXessibility!
To request a free MaX test-account send an e-mail to max@sonokids.com and include the requested username.
What does MaX have to offer?
MaX has been tested and approved by computer-users who are blind or have low vision from all over the world.
MaX is fully compatible with a Braille display or screenreader software.
Webtool MaX introduces the concept of WYHIWYS: What You Hear Is What You See. For the first time it is possible for a Braille/screenreader user to insert images and position them anywhere on a webpage.
MaX automatically generates new pages, working links, e-mails and necessary codes to facilitate easy addition of images and sound to the website. Logical mark-up tags in the mother-tongue (MaXican) instead of HTML assure that all html-code created will be accessible according to the W3C guidelines.
Each MaX-site offers an accessible guestbook, poll, weblog/planner, newsletter, Search-function, photoalbum, support for Realaudio and Windows Media files and more.
It is not what you see but how you look
In addition to normal lay-out different styles of MaX-wear centred around certain themes can be used to change the complete looks of a MaX website instantaniously.
As one of our users pointed out to us: What is important is not what you see but how you look. All MaX-sites are made to look great.
Customized MaX site
Webtool MaX can be tailored to personal requirements and options can be added or deleted accordingly. On request the tool can be placed on any existing url. MaX-wear can be created in correspondence with a logo or House-style.
As a partner in a project together with Sense, the UK organisation for deaf blind people, Sonokids has developed a fully customized version of MaX so that members of Sense can create their own personal website, within a members-only online community website.
Example of MaX-site
Within the Sonokids children's community over a thousand children, blind, partly sighted as well as fully sighted, have created a personal website with MaX.
A really wonderful MaX website is www.lookingatyou.org created by students of the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, Scotland. This website was a winning entry in the Childnet Academy Competition 2005.