Improvements in accessibility

New and improved accessibility features for WSS V3!

Jason Medero's SharePointing into Collaboration — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:05:25 GMT

SharePoint 2007 - Accessibility Improvements

Mark Harrison — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:05:11 GMT

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re: Improvements in accessibility

Shane Perran — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:32 GMT

That is great news, and great timing for me as I am currently involved in a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 + WSS 2.0 project that has made accessibility very real as there are blind users needing to be accomodated.

Awesome step in the right direction!

Improving accessability in the Sharepoint Office Server products

Breaking Point Blog — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:53:34 GMT

re: Improvements in accessibility

vAx — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:32:17 GMT

I need to create a webpart that lists ALL webparts on my portal and allows my users to select, checking some checkboxes, whichever webparts they want to have on the homepage. It's kind of myGoogle or NetVibe or Start.com style.

I don't really need that fancy AJAX drag-and-drop functionality, but if is not too much trouble it will be welcome...

SharePoint is not that userfriendly, so my users say.

I just want to cut some steps when adding webparts to the page. Edit >> Modify Shared Page >> Browse >> Drag-and-Drop webparts is way too complicated for my users...

I've looking around for some pre-built webparts but it looks like nobody was thinking about this issue...

Is it that hard? Why Microsoft doesn't have this in mind for the next version? USABILITY! This is a word that is missing in Microsoft's vocabulary...unfortunatelly...

Help Please! If I don't find a way out, my company will get rid of SharePoint Portal. I heard rummors they want to move to IBM WebSphere! Please, please, please HELP ME!

julianpop@gmail.com

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Improvements in accessibility

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.NET Resources

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The following links to .NET resources have been collated over time with the assistance of colleagues.&nbsp;...

re: Improvements in accessibility

Ishai Sagi — Tue, 09 May 2006 04:55:03 GMT

What about bullets? in the current version of sps, the bullets in a link list dont have the alt tag. is that fixed?

re: Improvements in accessibility

Samer Sawaya — Tue, 09 May 2006 05:24:30 GMT

Hi Ishai,

Yes all images will have appropriate ALT text that is covered by the point in the post:
-Better use of ALT descriptions on images

In your particular example the alt text on the bullet images will be set to ALT="" so that screen readers will ignore the bullet images.

Thanks,
Samer Sawaya (Program Manager Windows SharePoint Services)

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re: Improvements in accessibility

Ishai Sagi — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:34:24 GMT

found some issues you didnt fix:

Still no doctype in the html (hey! You are adding it by default in frontpage, why not in SharePoint?)

Still no language meta tag

Page viewer web part still does not render a title for the iframe (error 12.1)

The default CSS still does not respond well to changing the text size in the browser.

ps - the text size doesnt change well in this blog as well...whats up with that?

re: Improvements in accessibility

Robert Finney — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:07:16 GMT

It's good news regarding the additions and updates that are being made. The company I work for ran a full accessibility test against SharePoint using the leading products and there were a couple of other areas as well that we have identified as being a probelm. Screen Readers will speak the web part id (you know, the HUUUGE long id that is unique to each Web Part) - that wasn't too good.
Navigation around SharePoint was a bit of a nightmare - the 'Tab' order was a bit hit and miss.
Talking of the Text Size - we were able to get the CSS to do this but the biggest problem... it made the text of some sections tiny, which made accessibility even worse - best advice, split out the CSS's between SPS and WSS, make them independant.

2007 MOSS Resource Links (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

The Boiler Room - Mark Kruger, SharePoint MVP — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:46:00 GMT

Here is an assortment of various 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Documentation / Reference Materials...

re: Improvements in accessibility

Heather Korotie — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:36:47 GMT

I've read over the official MS accessibility site - http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepointserver/HA101737251033.aspx?pid=CH100948721033

Can you tell me if MOSS is compliant with section 508 and W3C?

Thanks,

Heather

Fanning the flames! (at last)

Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:43:15 GMT

Maybe this (reported on TheRegister ) will start the ball rolling in the right direction for accessibility

re: Improvements in accessibility

Ryan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:53:43 GMT

Content and Code were the first to launch a W1 accessible website using MOSS2007, http://www.fifteen.net/Pages/default.aspx. However, it is very easy to loose that ranking if the rules are not adheered to. Content and Code have now the a second accessible site http://www.wise-woman.net/Pages/default.aspx. What these sites go to show is that you can still create attractive accessible websites without comprimising SharePoint 2007 functionality.

re: Improvements in accessibility

Johan De Silva — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:07:32 GMT

Shame the same cant be said for the HTML of this post.

re: Improvements in accessibility

Christos K. — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:59:24 GMT

The problem is that we have improvements, but not compliant. There are article in MS saying that the specifications "can be accomplished", which is something very obscure. I can't find an article saying which web parts or ASP.NET controls are compliant or not, and solutions or workarounds or HOWTO, or ...

As you may know EC has a commitment by 2010, which is less than 3 years ahead.

We are evaluating MOSS for that purpose and we came to two workarounds. Either to put a wrapper around any web part we'll use, or use MOSS only as content management system and write the user interface ourselves, using rss and xls. Both are very time-consuming. I wish there are some comments about that issue

re: Improvements in accessibility

Glenda (goodwitch) Sims — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:53:41 GMT

Thanks for all the progress on accessiblity issues in SharePoint! I'm headed to North Carolina later this month to teach "Accessibility 101" to the City of Charlotte. I'm wondering if there is any "how to make accessible content using sharepoint" documentation that you would recommend.

I found an old post from 2004 "Tips for enhancing the accessibility of sharepoint web sites" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms916821.aspx but was wondering if there was anything more recent.

re: Improvements in accessibility - Turn on more accessible mode

Christos K — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:16:25 GMT

What is the "Turn on more accessible mode" you can see in the page source; I can't find any documentation anywhere!!

re: Improvements in accessibility

Stephane Deschamps — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:08:28 GMT

I'm in the midst of reviewing MOSS for the company I work for, and have been directed to this post.

Can you please explain (this is not a troll) why lists are still done with embedded tables, and even if bullets are to have empty ALT attributes, why not create actual UL/LI lists that users can identify more easily?

(I know by experience that half the perceived "bad decisions" are motivated by needs not known by the end reviewer)

HiSoftware AccRepair for SharePoint Designer and AccMonitor bring accessibility compliance to SharePoint based websites

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:38:52 GMT

Since the widely referenced Improvements in Accessibility blog entry was posted here over a year, we

MOSS 2007 and Accessibility; ADA guidelines and standards

Mark Arend — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:46:00 GMT

I've been asked this question a number of times, and am trying to assemble a definitive answer. Here's

MOSS 2007 and Accessibility; ADA guidelines and standards

Noticias externas — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:23:13 GMT

I've been asked a number of times "does MOSS 2007 adhere to the Americans with Disabilities

Pre-Announcing the "Accessibility Kit for SharePoint" (AKS)

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:50:33 GMT

Background About a month ago on July 31st, HiSoftware issued a press release , announcing an agreement

Pre-Announcing the "Accessibility Kit for SharePoint" (AKS)

Noticias externas — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:04:49 GMT

Background About a month ago on July 31st, HiSoftware issued a press release , announcing an agreement

Pre-Announcing the "Accessibility Kit for SharePoint" (AKS)

Bart Wessels' Blog — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:39:20 GMT

Lawrence heeft een post over de Accessibility kit voor SharePoint die interessant kan zijn voor bijvoorbeeld...

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Accessibility Kit for SharePoint

Public Sector Developer Weblog — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:54:27 GMT

I just caught this over on the SharePoint Blog . This is HUGE for the US Public Sector! "Microsoft has

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint

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I just caught this over on the SharePoint Blog . This is HUGE for the US Public Sector! "Microsoft

Pre-Announcing the "Accessibility Kit for SharePoint" (AKS)

Mark Voermans Blogt — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:19:37 GMT

Background About a month ago on July 31st, HiSoftware issued a press release, announcing an agreement...

re: Improvements in accessibility

brwalias — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:30:49 GMT

I do appreciate the efforts but its just not enough; and I do expect a stronger effort from Microsoft. Meeting WCAG level 1 is too easy and really doesn't help reach the people it standards should address- moss needs to aim at being compliant on all 3 levels!

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - AKS

Zlatan's Blog — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:34:13 GMT

It seems like I haven't been blogging for ages, needless to say that I've been busy as hell for

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - AKS

Owner Blog — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:54:14 GMT

It seems like I haven't been blogging for ages, needless to say that I've been busy as hell for

Aidan Nolan's [MSFT] SharePoint Blog : MOSS and InfoPath 2007 Accessibility

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Accesibilidad en MOSS, AKS, Cumplimiento AA

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Hola como estas, con la ayuda de un par de compañeros, te pongo un post que resume la información relativa

SharePoint Accessibility Resources

SharePoint thoughts you would be interested in — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:29:35 GMT

I've been working on implementing accessibility requirements for a public facing site on MOSS. Though