I attended a class this morning provided by another agency. The bulk of the class was spent learning how to use different toolbars for testing website accessibility:
AIS Accessibility Toolbar (IE)
JT Favelets (IE)
WAVE Toolbar (Firefox or Upload)
Developer Toolbar (FF)
Juicy Studios Accessibility Toolbar
Complex Table Toolbar
Firebug (Firefox)
JAWS (IE and Firefox)
Once I get these installed on my system, I'll begin reviewing sites and pages to see where the problems are. Until then, I won't even know how many issues there are or how severe they might be. Since our agency is using SharePoint 2007 OOTB, it will be interesting to see how close the basic code is to compliance.
One thing I know, however, is that accessibility compliance isn't important just because it's required. There are people with impairments and disabilities that just want to be able to do their jobs like everyone else.
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