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Re: accessibility of Dot Net Nuke and SharePoint

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Jun 2, 2007 11:50AM

John E. Brandt wrote:
> DNN is open-source, but it appeared
> that the people in that community were not as aware or interested in
> accessibility issues - my impression.

Thats my impression also from the digging that I have done for a client
of ours. I haven't looked too deeply but I think that everything gets
outputted into tables when you use Sharepoint. I do tend to agree with
Jukka that the use of tables and potential accessibility problems is a
bit of a myth in accessibility circles, however having said that, it is
not ideal.

If your web interfaces are marked up correctly etc and you stick to good
development/design practices, you should be Ok - if you _must_ use it
but there are certainly much better systems out there such as Drupal and
Joomla.

HTH

Josh

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