***NOW AVAILABLE*** Making SharePoint Sites Accessible: Accessibility Kit for SharePoint

A common complaint that a lot of people have about SharePoint v3, especially those creating Internet facing sites, is that the rendered HTML is not very accessible in the sense that it isn't friendly to the disabled to rely on screen readers or other requirements (such as 508c which we have in the US).

The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS), which I previously blogged about, has now been released as v1 on CodePlex. Please don't think of the AKS as a complete solution, rather it is a set of building blocks that can be used in your implementation and also as an example. For support, you can opt-in to a e-mail list or use a special MSDN online forum that's been setup.

» http://www.codeplex.com/aks

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posted on Friday, November 30, 2007 8:58 PM

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# re: ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Making SharePoint Sites Accessible: Accessibility Kit for SharePoint 12/1/2007 5:52 AM Waldek Mastykarz

Some might find the shipped components very useful. Personally I've been mostly interested in the documentation that was supposed to be delivered together with AKS (as presented by Ben Robb during the TechEd Developers 2007): Guidelines and Best Practices. Rushing to get my own copy of the AKS I have installed it, dug through it a few times and... No documentation found.
Another thing I've really hoped on was a control adapter for the Web Part Zone control. As the code is obfuscated and the class is sealed you can't do much about it. Among all the 25 adapters shipped with AKS no Web Part Zone.
Will BlueBand become the ultimate accessible SharePoint 2007 site baseline?...

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