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Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Itransition — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:08:49 -0000

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.

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Vince Rothwell — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:53:31 -0000

Andrew,

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

--Vince

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Access Curmudgeon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:26:00 -0000

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!

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Jag — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:31:00 -0000

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

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Andrew Woodward — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:25:00 -0000

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

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Michael — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:12:00 -0000

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

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Andrew Woodward — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:23:00 -0000

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...>

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Thomas — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:18:00 -0000

Hi Andrew

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

kind regards

Thomas

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Andrew Woodward — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:57:00 -0000

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.

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

Ishai Sagi — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:16:00 -0000

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

Re: SharePoint Accessibility - Is MOSS 2007 accessible?

RYAN — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:07:00 -0000

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.