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Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Feb 3, 2005 1:17PM

> Microsoft released a updated dll's that make it accessible, but you
> have to call up support to get them. You will not be charged for it.
> john

Do you have more information on this? I'm not really sure how some new DLLs
would magically make .net sites accessible...but I'm certainly interested in
it.

The main issue with the current version of .net is that most of the built in
controls produce rather crappy HTML. So, as long as you don't rely on the
default output of the controls, and instead tweak things yourself, you
should be fine.

The only major issue is that VS.net refuses to spit out valid markup, which
could cause some accessibility issues. Again, with some manual checking of
output, you should be able to get around those.

It's been said the new versions of ASP.net and VS.net address a lot of these
issues. Time will tell, I guess. ;o)

-Darrel