FIX: ASP.NET Controls Do Not Meet Accessibility Guidelines

The Microsoft ASP.NET Web controls that are included with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET do not meet the standards of Section 508 of the 1998 Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 is a subset of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

To resolve this problem, obtain the hotfix that is described in the following article:

These controls are affected by this hotfix:

• Label
• Image
• DataList
• Table
• DataGrid

For more information about Section 508, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.