Here's a link to Macromedia's Dreamweaver Accessibility Features page:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/features/

Dreamweaver's "Check Page for Accessibility" extension produces a very
detailed report that identifies real and potential accessibility
problems, including their location in source code and a reference to the
relevant W3C guidelines. It checks Priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints, and
consequently produces a very long, arduous report. The report is similar
to Bobby's, but unlike Bobby its analysis can not (to my knowledge) be
customzied.

Terry Thompson
Coordinator of Assistive and Information Technology
North Carolina State University
Voice: 919-513-3556
TDD: 919-515-8830
Fax: 919-513-2840
email: [log in to unmask]
web: http://www.ncsu.edu/it/dss/




>>> [log in to unmask] 02/07/01 07:24AM >>>
Jim,

DreamWeaver 3.0 is extremely difficult to access using a screen reader.
I
believe there are other tools which are much more accessible.

There is an add-in for DreamWeaver 3.0 which will help check the
accessibility of a page, but I do not know much about it beyond that at
this
point.

Hopefully, someone else can provide more details.

Thanks,
Tim


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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: DreamWeaver and accessibility


I know this subject has been coverred here in the past, but now it is
something that will probably need to be dealt with here in the near
future,
and I need to revisit the topic.

I am looking for any comments, positive or negative regarding the
accessibility of DreamWeaver.  I am talking both in terms of the
application itself and wether or not it works reasonably well with a
screen
reader, and also the usability of the pages it generates as far as
their
accessibility is concerned.

I do remember seeing something about an update or add-on that was
supposed
to help with things like alt tag prompting and such,but I'm not sure
about
this.

Thanks much,

Jim

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James A. Rebman

Cognitive Levers Project
Center for Life-Long Learning and Design (L3D)
University of Colorado, Boulder

"In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the
learned
will find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer
exists."
- Eric Hoffer