Bobby 508 Compliant BBS Needed
I have a client who wants us to revamp their Web site to be 508 compliant. No problem, we've done that before. But, they want to have a BBS as well.
Does anyone know of a BBS that claims to be 508 compliant? This client works on accessibility issues in the real world, so it's got to really work.
Busy posted this at 10:23 — 17th May 2006.
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The web developer toolbar in Firefox has a 'validate Section 508' option under 'tools', if you can find a site that at least claims to you can check it. Not sure how good it is, doesn't seem to do offline pages.
JeevesBond posted this at 12:27 — 17th May 2006.
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You could try punBB - http://www.punbb.org/about.php
They're software is a lot less complicated than most and claims to be standards compliant.
If you do find anything in there that isn't 508 compliant it shouldn't be too difficult to fix (as the software is simple), just remember to contribute your code back to the original authors so the whole project is improved (it's open source).
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