Web Content Accessibility

alanhill

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience in validating that a page meets WAI/accessibility compliance when it's being generated or submitted for deployment.

The trouble we seem to have with accessibility is that while the Teamsite templates we develop do not prohibit accessible content being added by our users, there is no guarantee that they will enter accessible content in their templates (particularly the visual editor).

For example if you, when you are supposed to use the 508 table for a data table, you instead use a normal table (one use normally for formatting o the page), there is no way programmatically to check that this is or is not valid.

I wondered if anyone else had any experience/thoughts on this.

Cheers

iwovGraduate

You may want to look at third party products like WatchFire which can perform things like 508 compliance checks. You can integrate such products with TeamSite.

If you use templating in its true idea - "separate content from presentation", you can ensure compliance mearly by making sure yout TPLs are compliant. Giving the visual editor to your contributors is contrary to this idea. (just something to think about)