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Welcome to the Accessibility Kit for
SharePoint (AKS) Community portal.
This portal is designed to provide the entire
SharePoint community of users, partners, internal
staff and the accessibility community in general the
ability to leverage and collaborate on making
SharePoint a more accessible application to meet the
demands of everyone The AKS will deliver a kit
that can significantly reduce the time, knowledge,
and effort required to implement a SharePoint-based
Web site that conforms to the World Wide Web
Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0 Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints, which
are collectively known as WCAG 1.0 AA. The AKS can
also be used to address the exceptions that have
been identified in the U.S. government’s Section 508
of the Rehabilitation Act’s Voluntary Product
Accessibility Template or VPAT documents for MOSS
2007.
Microsoft has partnered with
leading accessibility technology vendor HiSoftware
to build the AKS. The decision was made primarily
based on HiSoftware’s
in-depth expertise and broad industry experience in
providing tools and services for improving software
accessibility to the point of compliance with key
industry and government standards and beyond.
We welcome feedback, input
and comments on moving AKS forward. Please do not
hesitate to contact either one of us directly,
participate in the community or post comments on the
blogs or listserv. Thank you for your interest in
the AKS.
Sincerely,
Lawrence Liu – Microsoft Sr. Product Manager
Kurt A. Mueffelmann – HiSoftware President & CEO |
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the AKS Email Discussion list by sending an email to
