Hi,

Is DNN 508 Accessibility Compliant?  Does it depend on the skin?  

I have a client requesting this information and I don't know what to reply.

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Cathal,

Can you recommend a way for me to check out our custom skin and custom module for wcag/ada508 compatability?

Thanks,
Chris

there are many different levels of accessibility -common ones are ADA-508 (primarily US legislation) and WCAG (from the W3C, and the most common used - and incidentally far and away the easiest to comply with). Within those there are different levels e.g. WCAG has priority's A, double-A and triple-A (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/), which have incrementally more difficult restrictions. In general asp.net webform sites can be made to comply with priority A, but are very tricky to comply with AA (most of it can be met, but some is tricky to do). However most countries compliance requirements may not even be that strict - some require simply xhtml compliance, some ada-508 and some WCAG 2.0. The instruction about javascript is somewhat old as it's specified in WCAG 1.0 (ada-508 does not specify javascript, and WCAG 2.0 no longer requires it - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...(v=vs.100).aspx#client_script_and_accessibility ). As to what you should do, that depends on the area you host/users you serve e.g. I'm UK based so the guidance for the UK is to meet WCAG 2.0 level A as a minimum, and meet or attempt to meet the requirements for WCAG 2.0 AA (http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-fri...) - the last time I checked (and with the appropriate skin) DNN met these requirements.

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