AKS Accessibility Kit for SharePoint installed and working

Today I had a bit of spare time to attempt an installation of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint. The kit can be download from Codeplex or the AKS site itself. The file size is around 17MB

One of the things I discovered after installing AKS file is that it really is only built for public facing MOSS sites at the moment. What you get when you install the kit is basically a feature that sits within your Features folder on the file system. It’s the one called AKS. Using the STSADM tool you can install and activate the feature for a given site collection. This will deploy a bunch of AKS master pages and CSS file onto you site. Navigate to the site collection where you activated the feature and browse to site settings and the master page and page layouts gallery. You will find the new master pages titled AKS_BlueBand.master and several others. The CSS is deployed to the style library. A good source of information for exactly what happens can be found at CMS Wire.

I hope to crack open the master pages for a good look and run the pages through an online checker such as ATRC. We are currently building some Accessible SharePoint sites for some Government agencies however we built it using our own master pages so it will be interesting to see how this one stacks up. So far the AKS master pages I have applied look pretty good. There is an issue with the site actions menu playing up a bit in terms of styling widths on mouse hover.

Hopefully have some more on this fairly soon. So far so good with the AKS install