SharePoint 2007 Accessibility
June 16, 2009 4 Comments
http://www.21apps.com/sharepoint/sharepoint-accessibility-is-moss-2007-accessible/
Tools
1. Install FireFox and the following addons
HTML Validator – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
CSS Validator – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2289
Web Accessibility Tester – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=taw3&cat=all
What Doctype to use?
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2008/01/22/which-doctype-to-use-with-sharepoint-2007.aspx
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
MOSS Accessibility Kit
https://aks.hisoftware.com/default.aspx
Accessibility Whitepapers
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121877
Also register and download AKS whitepaper from https://aks.hisoftware.com/Resources/Lists/WhitePapers/AllItems.aspx
White paper for Delivering Accessible Solutions using
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Reference site:
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterPages.aspx
Site done using Div
http://www.worleyparsons.com/AboutUs/Pages/default.aspx
About Diganta Kumar
Hi Diganta,
I am looking for an article which can guide me how to make a existing MOSS 2007 site as WCAG compliant. Any help on this regards will be helpful.
You can send me any good reference articcle on avaneesh.jha@gmail.com
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Consider moving to SharePoint 2010. Because, I heard that SharePoint 2010 has following,
Also see the article SharePoint 2010 accessibility with WCAG 2.0 support.
Hi Diganta,
Thanks for response. However customer is reluctant for migration and thus we have no options but to make existing MOSS 2007 site WCAG compliant.
Request if you can kindly guide or provide any document that can guide us. We have no prior experience of the same.
Thanks and Regards,
Avaneesh Jha
Try the following URLs. I hope it helps,
1.Accessibility Kit for SharePoint 2007
2.CSS fiendly control adapters in SharePoint 2007
3.Plymouth NHS Trust