US federal requirements for website accessibility known as Section 508 (and the similar W3C "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines") require special HTML tagging. For example, you need to put row and column headers in table tags. Government websites in the US typically must be 508-compliant. HTML editors like Dreamweaver are beginning to catch up with special "508 plugins" that help automate and validate your compliance. But what about those Java/ActiveX/DHTML controls that are essential to providing WYSYWYG, browser-based editing in WCM systems? They have been slower to catch up. One major tool vendor, Ektron, today announced that the latest version of its control provides 508 compliance for the authoring interface. But for the actual HTML code that gets generated to be compliant, you still need to do some custom adaptation of the widget...
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