MOSS Accessibility Kit

I am currently in Perth teaching the Moss 2007 Bootcamp course. While I was here I was lucky enough to attend the Moss user group and see Sezai present on WCM. One of major topics that surfaces when discussing WCM and MOSS is the development process of creating a site that complies with W3C XHTML standards, WAI guidelines, Section 508 standards. This isn’t an OOB solution.

I have come to the understanding that there are basically three options you can use:

• Use CCS friendly adapters.
  http://www.codeplex.com/cssfriendly
  http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/

   

• Write custom field controls to control the html output.

   

   

• Use HiSoftwre Moss Accessibility Kit: endorsed by Microsoft.

  http://www.hisoftware.com/press/7-31-07MOSSAccessibilityKit.html

  http://www.it-director.com/business/compliance/content.php?cid=9678

   

  The Accessibility Kit for Office SharePoint Server will include site templates, Web parts, documentation, instruction and tutorials enabling partners and customers to develop Web sites that conform to the guidelines set out in Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The solution will also provide accessibility updates for Office SharePoint Server templates and Web parts for Web publishing, corporate intranet, team and project collaboration sites and more. This allows users to create a site and replace “out-of-the-box” MOSS components with accessibility kit templates, reusable Web content and Web parts.
  

 

For me the decision is simple.