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engineer to make it accessible. however the main problem with this is<br>
that if you have heavy customisation in place future updates to<br>
sharepoint may break these.<br>
<br>
I suppose the real message is that Sharepoint is great at its main<br>
tasks such as document management etc. But it should not be used as a<br>
Content Management System if you want an accessible website<br>
<br>
There are several alternative CMS including opensource technologies<br>
which I believe will result in a more accessible website.<br>
<br>
I am very interested in others point of view on this as well. Have any<br>
developers here had to use sharepoint? What were their experiences?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Brendan<br>
<br>
2008/9/19 Siobhan Long &lt;<a href="mailto:slong at enableireland.ie">slong at enableireland.ie</a>&gt;:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">&gt; Alan<br>
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&gt; That&#39;s great to know. Thanks for that info. We&#39;ll check it out.<br>
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&gt; Subject: Re: [Irl-dean] Sharepoint Accessibility Query<br>
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&gt; Siobhan,<br>
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&gt; I know HiSoftware released an &quot;Accessibility Kit for SharePoint&quot; earlier<br>
&gt; this year, but I haven&#39;t used it so I don&#39;t know how useful it is. There&#39;s<br>
&gt; more information at <a href="http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html</a><br>
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&gt; Ed Meagher &lt;<a href="mailto:emeagher at enableireland.ie">emeagher at enableireland.ie</a>&gt;<br>
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&gt; Subject<br>
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&gt; [Irl-dean] Sharepoint Accessibility Query<br>
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&gt; Dear fellow members of Irldean,<br>
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&gt; We are currently designing a new intranet for Enable Ireland and we are<br>
&gt; keen to find out just how accessible Sharepoint it. We want to use it<br>
&gt; both as a document repository and for interactive editing of shared<br>
&gt; documents. I wonder if anyone has specific experience of this? Our IT<br>
&gt; contractors are unsure as to just how accessible it is, out of the box.<br>
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&gt; Many thanks, in advance,<br>
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