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engineer to make it accessible. however the main problem with this is
that if you have heavy customisation in place future updates to
sharepoint may break these.

I suppose the real message is that Sharepoint is great at its main
tasks such as document management etc. But it should not be used as a
Content Management System if you want an accessible website

There are several alternative CMS including opensource technologies
which I believe will result in a more accessible website.

I am very interested in others point of view on this as well. Have any
developers here had to use sharepoint? What were their experiences?

Best,

Brendan

2008/9/19 Siobhan Long <slong at enableireland.ie>:
> Alan
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> That's great to know. Thanks for that info. We'll check it out.
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> Siobhan,
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> I know HiSoftware released an "Accessibility Kit for SharePoint" earlier
> this year, but I haven't used it so I don't know how useful it is. There's
> more information at http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html
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> Regards,
> Alan.
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> Dear fellow members of Irldean,
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> We are currently designing a new intranet for Enable Ireland and we are
> keen to find out just how accessible Sharepoint it. We want to use it
> both as a document repository and for interactive editing of shared
> documents. I wonder if anyone has specific experience of this? Our IT
> contractors are unsure as to just how accessible it is, out of the box.
>
> Many thanks, in advance,
>
> Siobhan Long
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