SharePoint 2007 Accessibility

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Diganta Kumar — 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

Diganta Kumar is an experienced Technical Program Manager with a passion for technology. He has architected and developed software for over a decade for a broad range of industries. Diganta is a founder of two online IT businesses. He likes to help, mentor, and manage software development teams to improve and produce great software. He currently works as a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, he was with AWS for five years, where he managed large cross-functional programs on a global scale.

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4 comments on “SharePoint 2007 Accessibility”

Avaneesh Jha says:

October 5, 2011 at 6:24 am

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

Reply
- Diganta Kumar says:
  
  October 7, 2011 at 12:06 pm
  
  Consider moving to SharePoint 2010. Because, I heard that SharePoint 2010 has following,
  - WCAG 2 Compliant for accessibility needs
  - More cross browser friendly than before
  - Mostly table-less layout
  - Out of the box master pages will be based on the XHTML Strict DocType
  Also see the article SharePoint 2010 accessibility with WCAG 2.0 support.
  
  Reply
  - Avaneesh Jha says:
    
    October 7, 2011 at 5:28 pm
    
    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
  - Diganta Kumar says:
    
    October 8, 2011 at 10:16 am
    
    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