Thanks Andy.
Step One I took earlier this week. Expecting a response any minute now
which I will share.
I am very encouraged by what I hear and know we have a few really capable
people who can identify the issues, work with others and come up with a
sensible plan.
Jon
On 15 January 2014 12:39, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 15 January 2014 11:44, rexx
<rexx(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I'm quite happy to continue giving advice on
the issues covered at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility
and I'd like to see it adopted as default on the WMUK Wiki, but I
question
the value of volunteers re-inventing the wheel by
chasing "gaps" that I'm
not at all sure actually exist.
I echo Doug's comments, and have three points and a suggestion to add:
The first step should be to ask WMF what work is already in hand.
Accessibility professionals always recommend testing sites (or planned
changes to them with a variety of real users, who have a range of
disabilities, and who use a variety of assistive tools.
The biggest barrier in my experience is community resistance to
accessibility improvements (witness the alt text issue referred to on
the parallel discussion on the WMUK wiki, where alt text descriptions
of images were deemed "too subjective" and "unverifiable").
I suggest we ask Bruce Lawson, accessibility and web standards
advocate (disclosure; and a personal friend) with Opera (the browser
vendor) to review Wikipedia and one to two sister sites, and give a
talk at Wikimania (or, if he's not available, to recommend someone who
can).
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