.net and accessibility

[darrel]

Anyone know of any resources dedicated to the discussion of Accessibility
and .net?

MS has about 2235 newsgroups on this server, but only one dedicated to
accessibility. And that's for XP. :|

-Darrel

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

If your accessibility question is related to ASP.NET, go ahead and post it
in here.

 

[darrel]

If your accessibility question is related to ASP.NET, go ahead and post it

in here.

Well, I've been looking for an accessible .net control that produces an
accessible (and, ideally, unobtrusive) DHTML fly-out navigation system.

I haven't found any .net controls that are the least bit accessible.

I've found a few javascripts that I could use with my own control...namely:
http://projectseven.com/
http://www.udm4.com/

Project Seven's is nice, but is a bit quirky. It makes a lot of assumptions
as to how you want to implement your menu.

UDM4 is really nice, but seems to be overkill, as it tries to accomodate
every conceivable option (which is nice, to be sure.)

I took a little look at ASP.net 2's menu control, but from the samples I've
seen, that produces horrendous markup output.

-Darrel

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

I've been somewhat dissapointed with the default accessibility of the
ASP.NET controls too.
Creating a truly accessible web site certainly takes some extra coding, but
it can be done.
Here are some free menu controls for you to investigate, although I'm not
sure how good or poor they are as far as accessibility goes:

http://SteveOrr.net/freecontrols/menus.aspx

 

[darrel]

I've been somewhat dissapointed with the default accessibility of the

ASP.NET controls too.
Creating a truly accessible web site certainly takes some extra coding, but
it can be done.
Here are some free menu controls for you to investigate, although I'm not
sure how good or poor they are as far as accessibility goes:

http://SteveOrr.net/freecontrols/menus.aspx

That's kind of why I was asking about dedicated .net accessibility forums. A
lot of .net samples don't seem to focus on accessibility. And, of course, a
lot of the built in .net controls don't even consider extremely basic
accessibility...like full support for non IE browsers.

The skmMenu is mentioned a lot and it's great that it's open source, but
it's completely inaccessible. It's just really bad code. Ditto for
TimothyHumphry's

Still on the hunt, though. ;o)

-Darrel