As announced before, the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint will be provided on codeplex the end of this month by HiSoftware. There is some updated information available on their website: http://www.hisoftware.com/MOSS/aks.htm
"The AKS will deliver a kit that can significantly reduce the time, knowledge,
and effort required to implement a SharePoint-based Web site that conforms to the
World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Priority
1 and 2 checkpoints, which are collectively known as WCAG 1.0 AA. The AKS can also
be used to address the exceptions that have been identified in the U.S. government’s
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act’s Voluntary Product Accessibility Template or
VPAT documents for
MOSS 2007.
The kit will provide templates, master pages, controls and Web parts along with technical documentation to advance the accessibility of MOSS based web sites and applications for people with disabilities, especially those who are vision impaired. All of the source code will be provided via the Microsoft Permissive License this year for customers and other Microsoft partners to download, reuse, and extend. "
.. I can"t wait!
>>Source Link
>>Blog: Mart Muller_s Sharepoint Weblog
>>Publish Date: 10/8/2007 10:18:52 PM
>>Keywords: web accessibility
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