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5/10/2006 11:30 AM
 
Arif Shah

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I have read several posts regarding accessibility issues with DNN. As I am still learning about the issue myself, I found some of them very informative and i saw some of them ending up in arguments.....constructive or otherwise.

Therefore, my simple and humble question to the good DNN Core Team / Development Community would be........Is the default installation of DNN 3.3 / 4.1 without any custom skins and modules W3C / ADA / DDA compliant??? If not, are there any plans for development in this area for future releases??

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5/17/2006 11:02 AM
 
Michael Flanakin


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I'm almost positive the answer to all of those is, no, DNN is not 100% compliant. We are working on it, tho. If you notice a problem, let us know by posting an issue in Gemini. We don't always notice when there's a problem, so your support is greatly appreciated.
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5/17/2006 12:18 PM
 
Barry Sweeney


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This is likely to become more of an issue, this case is the most recent one that highlights the potential dangers facing site owners who don't or won't or can't comply
 
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5/17/2006 12:36 PM
 
Rodney Joyce


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Yes, we have just had an Accessibility Consultant come in and go through our product (non-DNN) - really scary how far you can go with it. It was very high level but you have to consider that some browsers don't have JScript (rendered out app useless) and might be read through screen readers like Jaws (where each table row needs to be named etc.)

One site that they used as a good example of an accessibily website was www.bbc.co.uk - they have really gone far in making it accessible. Bear in mind that this was with our non-public facing webapp - we could not even dictate the minimum requirements in this area... scary...

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5/18/2006 12:06 PM
 
Arif Shah

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Thanks for your replies.

I know accessibility and compliant HTML are different issues but I have read interviews from Tim O' Brien on Lee Syke's website where they claim that if the document definition is changed to XHTML and some changes are made in default.aspx with minor changes in ascx controls for modules, the website completely validates to W3C standards.

Ofcourse he has used just text/html module on his site. Those changes would need to be spread over all the other ascx controls for the modules. But still, that would be the first step for an accessible website.......completely valid HTML.

Is there any reason why is this process not implemented in the default installation of dotnetnuke??
 
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