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From: Michael D. Roush
Date: Nov 4, 2003 3:54AM

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> Jeb, you can modify the templates in phpBB to be accessible in the same
way
> you would build a website to be accessible.

...Which sounds easy enough, but the way phpBB is built, it isn't always so
easy to snoop your way through it to find what you are looking for. As far
as I have been able to tell, all the images have alternate text (although
some valiidators complain that the alternate text is the same as the word
right next to the image). The form fields do not have labels, but I think
they all have text preceding them that says what the form field is for.

The best way to do this one, I think, is to install the darn thing and then
run validators-a-plenty on it to see what they find. That's what I did on
the "Forums" section at www.hopewellserrc.org and there has been very little
that I have had to monkey with.

Michael
AccessRamp.org


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