DISQUS

RYAN · 2 years ago

Content and Code has launched two W1 accessible websites, www.fifteen.net and http://www.wise-woman.net/Pages/default.aspx. These two websites show that you can create an attractive and accessible website using SharePoint 2007 whilst not loosing any functionality.

Ishai Sagi · 2 years ago

Good article (and similar to my old one on accessability in sps2003). What about using tables for layouts - you didn't mention it.

Andrew Woodward · 2 years ago

ishai, the article is a summary of the document which covers the Priority 1 (Level "A" compliance) requirements of the WCAG 1.0 specification.


Section 5.3 of the guide does allow for tables for layout, however it is also regarded as a Priority 2 requirement. I need to follow up the article with a comparision to the Priority 2 (Level "AA") compliance.



Hopefully the article will help people understand how MOSS 2007 has improved, but also that it is not a silver bullet and still needs improvement.

Thomas · 2 years ago

Hi Andrew


Interesting article. Do you have a link to the source of Microsofts list that you present here?



kind regards

Thomas

Andrew Woodward · 2 years ago

Thomas,


Links to the source material should be in the article. I assume you refer to the WCAG checklist which is http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html...>

Michael · 2 years ago

Andrew,
It seems that your list is inconsistent with the official WCAG list - am I missing something?

Andrew Woodward · 2 years ago

Michael,


It appears that the WCAG article has been updated and the reference numbers seemto have changed!



The links in the post have been updated to point to the one they refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-199903... the updated list see



http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html

Jag · 2 years ago

Andrew Nice article. Helped me in understanding on how SharePoint 2007 can tackle Accessibility requirements for my clients (especially those public sector ones!).


Note that URL for Microsoft Accessibility site for developers is broken. the latest one is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/...



Ta

Jag

Access Curmudgeon · 1 year ago

Great article, but even after reading the comments I cannot reconcile your numbering with WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints! For example WCAG (both the March 1999 and final versions) stop at 1.5, but you have 1.6 - 1.9! (And that's only the most obvious disconnect.) Can you please explain where your questions came from? Thanks!

Vince Rothwell · 1 year ago

Andrew,

I have now released ARF (http://www.spworks.co.uk/arf/accessibility.aspx), which makes creating accessible publishing sites much easier.

--Vince

Itransition · 4 months ago

Looking forward to Sharepoint 2010 I suppose that MOSS acessibility will be maintained much better. I hope It will be well-integrated with W3S standarts in the field of websphere development and web portals development.