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Third-Party Accessibility and Compliance Tools
A number of organizations provide tools to assist with creating and maintaining an
accessible SharePoint Web site. For example, to assist content editors in creating
accessible content, HiSoftware and Telerik provide accessible rich-text editors to
replace the out-of-the-box editor.
See Also A useful resource for maintenance is the Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT)
found at www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/toolbar/.
HiSoftware is a Microsoft Gold partner that provides Compliance Sheriff, a product
that includes a workflow integrated into SharePoint, which you can use to verify
content as it goes in the system. Business decisions can be made with this workflow,
such as rejecting noncompliant content or passing the content to a person in
the organization who is focused on remediating content so that compliant content
can be posted.
Compliance Sheriff also allows organizations to develop, implement, and monitor a
proactive strategy for compliance with accessibility guidelines and for preventing,
detecting, and/or managing inappropriate content, such as personally identifiable
information (PII), personal health information (PHI), and secure sensitive information
(SSI or OPSEC), that flows through the system.
In addition, the company provides the Accessibility Foundation Module (AFM) to
assist with the creation and maintenance of an accessible Web site infrastructure
(including Web Parts and custom code). The most significant advantage of AFM is
the enterprise-friendly installation method that allows a SharePoint server administrator
to easily apply a master configuration to multiple SharePoint applications.
AFM allows you to build a SharePoint environment that meets WCAG version 2.0
guidelines and can also be used to address Section 508 VPATs.
AFM uses techniques that are part of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications
(ARIA) specification to make SharePoint even easier to use for users of assistive
technologies. It can be integrated with Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint to allow
users to create reports before and after its application to demonstrate that content
has actually improved in compliance.
By using Compliance Sheriff in combination with AFM to evaluate SharePoint Web
sites with custom code or custom Web Parts, you have a way to assess and remediate
your SharePoint infrastructure no matter what configurations have been applied.