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Accessible shopping cart - 4/5/2007 16:21:37
Yup, Wombley's dipping her toes into the world of e-commerce and is off a-hunting for suitable shopping carts. Found Tradingeye PHP on my travels, which looks very nice, but a little pricey for what I'm planning, so the search continues....
...but it's XHTML/CSS compliant, and Section 508/WCAG AAA compliant as well and looks pretty nice.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 4/6/2007 4:50:58
Trading Eye has a good reputation and the guy who runs it is very helpful and approachable.
There's also Karova and Selectacart (UK only) but they're both in the region of £500.
Apart from that - Andy from Spain's Ecommerce Templates has a CSS version now which looks pretty good and I asked him if he'd consider adding labels etc (but hopefully wouldn't be too hard to do yourself). These templates aren't too expensive either.
At the moment if you need a freebie I'd say use Paypal shopping cart and pass the problem off onto someone else (naughty eh?) just ensuring that your end of things is all neat and tidy OR use Zen cart.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 4/6/2007 7:32:21
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Andy from Spain's Ecommerce Templates has a CSS version now which looks pretty good and I asked him if he'd consider adding labels etc (but hopefully wouldn't be too hard to do yourself). These templates aren't too expensive either. To clarify for any newbs to carts - those are fine for a few products but not if you have a full cart requirement with stock tracking and PayPal ping back required plus merchant accounts.
I didn't know that - thanks for clarifying.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 4/7/2007 2:50:57
Jaybee, might be useful to set up a scoring system for carts based on front-end accessibility/semantics/validity plus ease of editing for the designer plus ease of use for the typical err non-smart client!
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 4/21/2008 7:15:55
Hey, so which cart did ya stop at? Just curious 'cos you didn't mention Avactis shopping cart and I wanted to know what else scores :) I did ask a couple of months ago about Avactis here, but got only one answer. Seems like noone knows it. But I tested it myself and man, I like it! Just take a look (there's free demo) - it has all you need and it ain't hard to manage ;) So it's worth your attention too ;)
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 4/23/2008 11:11:44
I think I would still prefer CandyPress (ShoppingTree) for a cheap (under $100) cart.
I am also liking the Iatek Portal, though their support is err ehhh lacking.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 5/6/2008 8:38:39
What exactly Avactis URL did you test? Demo store? I believe you should test several live stores because they're the sites many users visit, while the demo and the main Avactis.com site are mostly for webmasters and developers who make those stores, and they rarely have disabilities :)
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 5/6/2008 13:03:07
Doesn't matter - that's not the point (and do you know that for sure anyway?).
Their carts should be accessible by default. In the UK it's a legal requirement (and in much of Europe too).
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 5/13/2008 18:46:10
Anyone hear of Veracart? I received an ad in a newsletter from Bravenet about a shopping cart, Veracart. Just wondering if someone knew of them or had anything to say about them?
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 5/15/2008 7:50:07
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To clarify for any newbs to carts - those are fine for a few products but not if you have a full cart requirement with stock tracking and PayPal ping back required plus merchant accounts.
Just to clarify Jaybee, which are "those" you are referring to there as it wasn't clear in your post?
Tailside, our next release will be validating fully but if you'd like to drop me a note about labels then maybe we can do something there too.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 5/15/2008 12:56:29
I just went to Avactis website and you have to pay, starting at $19.95. On top of that, I couldn't even find a phone number, just a silly form to fill out. I'm sorry but I don't think Avactis is a worthy option, unless you were a supreme web developer. I need support, customizable cart, and unlimited products. Anyone else have any other options? Seems like Veracart is the only one so far to meet my criteria.
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 7/24/2008 12:52:03
We released Version 5.6 recently and finished addressing validation and accessibility issues "out of the box". If you want to see it in action you can take a look at the demo store here http://www.ectdemostore.com/
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 7/24/2008 14:19:42
The only problem is that it's still got a load of tables in there - I seem to remember the CSS version didn't have that?
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RE: Accessible shopping cart - 7/25/2008 5:42:35
The shopping cart has always used tables for presenting the cart, categories, search etc - but I don't see why we would want to do that in any other way to be honest.
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