Anyone that’s worked with SharePoint 2007 knows it’s a pain to make accessible. SharePoint spits things out as tables and the Site Actions menu is grim to behold in HTML. The guys working on the NSPCC NSU site used the ARF toolkit to replace the standard SharePoint 2007 controls with ARF controls that basically pull the info from SharePoint, render it as XML and apply an XSL to this. The result is the NSU Safeguarding Unit site that’s fully accessible. (Cue Ciaran or Nicky for a full blog post! =) )

Andrew McConnell has recently blogged about SharePoint 2010’s rendering; namely that it’s WCAG2.0 AA compliant ootb and it even converts existing sites! His post is definitely worth a read and can be found here:

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/11/04/sharepoint-2010-changes-to-rendering.aspx

I wonder how accessible the admin interface is though? I’ve seen a few requests for accessible admin interfaces and I have a feeling it’ll be the next big thing.