[pmwiki-users] Section 508 compliance

[Paul Lewis]

Pm,
Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear PmWiki is already Section 508 
compliant! PmWiki should probably actively market this feature.

I only found a few errors for my site when I scanned it at 
http://webxact.watchfire.com. Looks like most of the errors I can fix on 
my own.

How about simple tables? I don't see anything in the documentation at 
http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SimpleTables about table summaries for 
simple tables, a Section 508 priorty 3 requirement. I see table 
summaries are available for Advanced Tables 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AdvancedTables.

Also, can alt tags be included anytime an image is used, like in the 
wonderful Rotate Markup cookbook script? I don't see an example there. 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RotateMarkup

Thanks,
Paul

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Paul Lewis wrote:
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>
>>We have a new disability coordinator on our campus. Looks like she's 
>>going to be pushing for Section 508 compliance for campus web sites.
>>From my conversation with her, it appears that she has never heard of 
>>XHTML or W3C.
>>
>>Are there any plans to build Section 508 compliance into PmWiki or is 
>>this something I should just be able work out for myself using the Bobby 
>>service and adding image alt tags and table descriptions?
>>    
>>
>
>I think building Section 508 compliance into PmWiki is an excellent
>idea and will be glad to do it, if others can let me know where PmWiki
>isn't currently Section 508 compliant.  :-)
>
>PmWiki already strives to be XHTML compliant, so if there are any
>validation/compatibility issues there I'd appreciate hearing about 
>them also.
>
>Pm
>
>  
>


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