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Re: accessibility of Dot Net Nuke and SharePoint

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From: Charge D Wise
Date: Jun 3, 2007 8:30AM

SharePoint and DotNetNuke are different products and to latest version of
each use ASP.NET 2.0. Dotnet 2.0 is vastly superior to 1-1.1 for
accessibility and standards based output. SharePoint 3.0 is more accessible
than earlier versions as well. It is far from perfect but you can make if
mostly accessible. I say mostly because many of the defaults are not the
best and if D after all a CMS so you have multiple author issues.

Cheryl D Wise
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-----Original Message-----
From: John E. Brandtke and SharePoint

I did an rather extensive analysis of DNN a year or so ago when I was
running my jebswebs website using DNN, but the DNN application crashed one
day and I lost both the site and the database...so the content and all of my
pity comments were lost.

In any case, what I remember from that time was that much of the "engine"
driving the DNN application is "hidden" away in the Windows server which at
various times was .ASP or .NET . I believe the latest iteration of this is
SharePoint.

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I'm not sure how to advise you on this. If your system is already integrated
in SharePoint, you may be stuck needing to stay with that. You may need to
get Microsoft to advise you as they claim their software complies with
Section 508. And you might want to track down Tim.

~j