Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 clears up some problems with cosmetic improvements, but delivers enough new ones out-of-the-box to remain beyond the reach of assistive technology users. Significant development will be necessary to ensure a basic level of accessibility.
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In this item, I will refer to “editorial design” as the refinement and optimisation content presentation for content-driven websites.
Of course, editorial design for print predates the Internet and web designers may even take some cues from it, but this item is concerned only with the digital domain.
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