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MS<br>
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 =
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face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>&gt; Alan<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; That's great to know. Thanks for that info. We'll check it out.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
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&gt; Regards,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Siobhan<br>
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On Behalf Of ADalton at NDA.ie<br>
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&gt; To: Irish Design-for-all and e-Accessibility Network<br>
&gt; Subject: Re: [Irl-dean] Sharepoint Accessibility Query<br>
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&gt; Siobhan,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I know HiSoftware released an &quot;Accessibility Kit for =
SharePoint&quot;
earlier<br>
&gt; this year, but I haven't used it so I don't know how useful it is. =
There's<br>
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target=3D"_blank">http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html</a><br>
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&gt; Please respond to<br>
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t;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Subject<br>
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&gt; [Irl-dean] Sharepoint Accessibility Query<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
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&gt; Dear fellow members of Irldean,<br>
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are<br>
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it<br>
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IT<br>
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box.<br>
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