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From: Dharanipragada, Srinivas N
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 12:14PM
Subject: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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Hello all,

Could you please direct me to some useful resources for building
accessible data driven web applications using ASP.Net.

Thanks in advance.

Srinivas.

From: John Hamman
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 12:50PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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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

From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 1:17PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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> 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

From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 3:11PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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> Do you have more information on this?

Off-list, I was sent me the link to the MS Accessibility site where you can
sign up for MS's mailing list (thanks, John!):

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/news/subscribe/default.asp

Unfortuantely, all I got out of it was a good chuckle:

http://mnteractive.com/ms-and-accessibility-ahahaha/

-Darrel

From: Dharanipragada, Srinivas N
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 3:20PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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Thanks John and Darrel for sharing your thoughts.

Srinivas.

From: John Hamman
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 5:10PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821156
this is the link to the hotfix that makes some controls better or at least
the html more like they should.
John
Asp.net will product xhtml strict 1.1! even. I tested it. Its not bad. Heck
of a lot better than it is now.
john

From: John Hamman
Date: Thu, Feb 03 2005 5:50PM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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Sorry, correction ASP.NET 2.0 will produce valid xhtml. Not 1.1
john

From: Dharanipragada, Srinivas N
Date: Fri, Feb 04 2005 8:12AM
Subject: Re: Building Accessible applications using ASP.NET
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Thanks John.

Don't we have any good books on how to play with these controls to make
as much accessible as possible? Now that ASP.Net is being used since 3-4
years, I was hoping people must have worked on the accessibility part of
it also.

Thanks,
Srinivas.