Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility/Archive 2
WebAIM Survey of Preferences of Screen Readers UsersA preliminary summary of results from WebAIM's Survey of Preferences of Screen Readers Users has been published. —Michael Z. 2009-02-02 05:13 z I have RSI and get constantly discriminatedI'm working with the author here to help make this section more easily readable --Onorem♠Dil 20:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Please refrain from making unconstructive edits. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:38, 25 December 2008 (UTC) Stop already with the nonsense you're posting on WP:ANI. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Any further nonsense out of this account will result in an indefinite block. I cannot understand at all what your posts resemble, and you have been posting such garbage at multiple talk pages and archives. seicer | talk | contribs 13:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
And as promised, this account has been blocked indefinitely. You are free to appeal this block using the instructions provided. seicer | talk | contribs 14:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC) Because of crippling pain in my arms, I use shorthand or phonetic. What do I get for my effort [= typing through pain]? Abuse (I’m stupid,inane,talk gibberish), including getting blocked, like when actually putting up a link to RSI, reality beats fiction--Nobody'd dare harassing a person with a walking disability, let alone banning him/her from the sidewalk, yet I have to suffer the equivalent of such totally impossible behavior, and when I’m assertive about my condition, I get loutish mocking; when I then get back just how offensive and ignorant their attitude is, it’s me getting blocked once more 'cause ‘just look, a terrible (blocking) history’ This made and still makes me so mad--yes, M-A-D. Why? Push me long enough, and in the end, that will happen, I do will get emotional. I’m not from the 'coolest' part of the world, that is, when pushed over-the-edge i'll lose my cool, yes, but then to just hold my anger against me, instead of also looking what elicited it - How is that possible here on a site like this? See also Sven70, where I divulged personal information in hope of understanding – in vain, short-cut by yet another block - what a torture these 2 months here have been. I typed this through pins and needles and dysesthetic (feeling cold within, hard to imagine if one's never experienced it) hands. At the very least I hope for once a discussion will ensue, like how to also have people like me onboard. I’m only a doctor who speaks 6 languages with a masters degree in education who lived in different cultures for half his life you know. How to perhaps enable voice input and messaging, reducing clicking and typing to a minimum? Wiktionary is the biggest offender of all, with the people there one cannot talk at all. They are condescending? Don't mention it, as you'll be blocked for it. A dictionary for the non-specialist user? Nay, by (which is ok) and for linguists. Pointing out long lists of synonyms are not so good (as one has to click down thru them, pages), and please request to have them horizontal, separated by commas - sacrilege! and blocked once more. As a newbe one’s expected to grovel to have right of existence, once again: How’s this possible?? … It really amounts to a disgrace, and one should not get blocked for in the end stating it as such, as it’s merely spelling out what actually happens, a spade is a spade is a spade! I feel very very strongly about this, was about to write Wikimedia, of which Wiktionary, the most disgusting part rogue/ignorant/uncommunicative admin was, but you are all in the same boat, and when I brought my concerns over here I was blocked. No communication is possible over there, emails get ignored. Colluding against the disabled bunch there. Yes, this is a megarant, but duly so – In the end, I won’t sue Wikimedia for it, though I’ll be a pain in their butt for the abuse I suffered, but others might and will and then what? Why not prevent, be proactive? sven0921, skyp. See? I keep the communication channels open. Result? I just get shot down. In the end, I do call the above incriminators retarded, as what they’re doing, in ignorance. I tried to explain 20 times now. [RSI--2DADEF] Funny, that became a pun cause what they’re doing is retarded, no hypocrite PC’d be held against me for calling them a spade. The first to tell a disabled one to get out of their way, and perhaps locked inside the house, so the able can do their stuff undisturbed, nay, undisrupted/harassed in their words. I am so utterly disgusted, even my large vocabulary (surprise x2) fails me. I don’t expect everybody to read my shorthand, but do tolerance, [nper] sound file there would be no problem for starters. And yes, I vent, which normally only leads to a block. I didn’t start this, but a guy called SB on Wiktionary. [npl] Do check the histories. You can marvel at my consistency, as well as using longhand on actual entries – so disheartening… And since then it has been one complete nightmare. This all makes one feel so bad and how can there be no transparency, like an area to denounce outlandish behavior/attitudes from said admins? …. Gauss curve tells us most people here would be ok, newbies/veterans alike, so how can this happen? And sadly enough, everybody can get RSI, just do enough typing pref in bad circumstances, this ought to be that especially wikimedians would know about, if not for others then already for their own good – read, health. But, oh, I offended people through stating the archaic nature of English spelling - Lots of redundant typing that they offend me to the max by ridiculing me that’s irrelevant to them. How can this be? Caution Please refrain from making unconstructive edits. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:38, 25 December 2008 (UTC) Stop already with the nonsense you're posting on WP:ANI. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC) Any further nonsense out of this account will result in an indefinite block. I cannot understand at all what your posts resemble, and you have been posting such garbage at multiple talk pages and archives. seicer | talk | contribs 13:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC) And as promised, this account has been blocked indefinitely. You are free to appeal this block using the instructions provided. seicer | talk | contribs 14:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC) [niashu?polaithu?] Makes wonder who the actual garbage is. Hint: Not me, but I’ve got to suffer as such extreme ignorance, about which they feel no problem to be blatant about it, as a rather educated, fair, and sharing person it leaves one baffled, at a loss, just how to deal with such people who seem impervious to all reason – AGF? Nah, wikilawyering. Exception, yeah. Indefinite block, yeah. Definitely not in the spirit of Wikimedia, but they’re above it you know, ganging up against me, as if my life already isn’t hard enough with debilitating pain in my arms, day in and out. Before, in my youth (20 years ago) we thought soccer hooligans would “think” like such, but how can this happen here? And don’t get me wrong, I love watching soccer and kickin a ball, I’m just against discrimination and violence. And the wording, “Stop already.” Excuse me, I’m 39 this year, accomplished academic person, who do they think they’re talking to? Their dog? Hope they don’t talk nicer to him. And that block … me trying to explain what RSI means as an affliction, on his talk page, I mean, who’s actually trying hard and behaving like a wikipedian here? Further names I’ve been called:stupid, inane, gibberish, shall I go on? But me, I’m the problem. That’s a cruel reversal. Luka those admins talkpages/names, I thought my computer was actually bugged, like infected. Nice welcome, man, can you feel how angry this makes one, but if I name one, like ignorant, O-block x3. On Monty Python, it’d be funny, not in reality. And I’d not go through the humiliating deblock instructions, I mean, who’s the actual victim, the bully or the victim? And I’ve seen how some admin’s conduct themselves, requiring the newbie to be meek, apologetic, r/asabl* child, where, apart from some angry response from my hurted. Said, it’s clear cut to me where the problem lies. Why, somebody would talk to them, as to me, a good source as MD and sufferer, they don’t care in the least, which is hard to understand for me. I’m willing to explain, but that’s how it has been for two enraging months. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.69.85.251 (talk) 03:24, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Accessibility iconHi. I'd like to suggest adopting the Gnome icon to represent accessibility issues in Wikipedia. I think it has some good qualities, and advantages over the current globe:
Any objections? —Michael Z. 2009-01-25 19:16 z
I've replaced the icon, since there was no objection for a week. Hope that's okay. —Michael Z. 2009-02-01 16:56 z Research group and ARIAHello, we are currently evaluating accessibility and usability of wikipedia for the blind. We are a research group composed of 5 people, one is totally blind and navigates web content via the Jaw screen reader. We are available to participate this project. We suggest to use the W3C WAI-ARIA suite WAI ARIA Overview to simplify interaction via screen reader and enhance keyboard navigation. Maribu2009 (talk) 22:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Barrier freeThere's a Wikipedia article called barrier free. Is the title of that article really correct? I have always thought that "barrier free" was an example of waseieigo, similar to "salary man" or "free dial". (212.247.11.156 (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)) WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Site Notice Not AccessibleWhat message is so important that it is put on the top page, one every page? But that same message violates Accessibility 101. Did you know that there are events throughout the year, e.g. WikiManina? You wouldn't unless you used their browser. Or someone told you to monitor Meta:Special:CentralNotice. And say you want to leave a a comment there to that effect. But it is a Special Page without a Talk page. However it says "Please don't modify the settings on this page without checking with Tomasz Finc." which links to Meta:User:Tfinc which says to see foundation:User:Tfinc wherein we try to leave a comment on meta:User_talk:Tfinc , but that is a read-only site for normal users, so we go back and successfully leave a comment, meta:User_talk:Tfinc#Site_notice_accessibility_issues, which he never sees. Jidanni (talk) 01:52, 9 May 2009 (UTC) Submitted bugzilla:18832. Jidanni (talk) 02:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC) Could someone take a look please(Copied from WT:Accessibility) Over at WP:CYC we are trying to establish a template for articles on races. A habit has emerged over using coloured backgrounds in tables to indicate holders of the various jerseys used to denote honours and competition leadership. See, for example 2008 Tour de France or 2008 Giro d'Italia, and especially the Jersey progress sections of each. I believe that we should indicate far more clearly a key for the significance of these colours, but I come here in search of your expertise on the suitability of these background colours for those with colour perception difficulties. If you give any observations here I will post them across to our discussions: if you wish to post directly, we have started the discussion at User_talk:Nosleep/Style_guide/Short_stage_race. Kevin McE (talk) 15:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Heading accessibilityIt would be really useful to have an expert of the topic talk about why skipping out heading levels is actually bad for accessibility at this RFC. I've only written a couple of sentences and already I feel I cannot do it justice. That would be great (if you could manage it today, that'd be even better). - Jarry1250 (t, c) 09:05, 31 May 2009 (UTC) Bot proposal to add alternate text to stub icon imagesPlease see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xenobot 6.1. –xenotalk 18:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC) Alt-text as a requirement for featured articles criteria?There's a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Alt text in images. –xenotalk 13:30, 10 July 2009 (UTC) Image alt text in templatesHi, the template Template:Research-Project supports the inclusion of a project logo, but there seems to be no way to add alt text for the image (see Template talk:Research-Project). I asked one of the editors of the template how this can be fixed but got no response. Can anyone help me? Other templates may have the same issue. --ChristopheS (talk) 13:48, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Navbox locationHi, unsure if this is the best place to ask, if not then can you point in the right direction. Is there any guidelines on having navboxes in the middle of articles. I removed one on grounds of MOS:SCROLL thinking that accessibility on collapsible boxes in text would not be allowed. After reversion I was wondering if there was any policy/guidelines over their placement the best I can find is MOS:LAYOUT where there is a passing reference to their order in the footer sections. Thanks. Keith D (talk) 20:26, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I find the color-blind Wikipedians?Is there a list of color-blind Wikipedians somewhere, perhaps organized by type of color blindness? That seems like an awfully useful reference for this project's purposes. — Athelwulf [T]/[C] 06:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Use of icons as infobox labelsI've started a thread here regarding the use of icons in lieu of text labels in infobox templates. Input would be appreciated. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:08, 19 August 2009 (UTC) AbbreviationsFYI: the Input requested at Dustbin Baby (film)I would appreciate input from other accessibility-minded folks at Dustbin Baby (film): I'm currently in a conversation with an admin who is advocating for the usage of this phrasing: "(person) suffers from Asperger syndrome". The assumption that all people on the autism spectrum "suffer" for it strikes me as inappropriate. If you'd like to weigh in, please see Talk:Dustbin Baby (film)#Phrasing of content addressing Asperger syndrome. Thanks. Whatever404 (talk) 20:18, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
programming help for different display for visually impairedHi, it's great that you wikipedians have gotten together for this worthy project. Looks good so far! I visit because i am hoping to find my way to a programmer or someone else knowledgeable about display for screen readers, Braille readers, etc. The issue is about how to provide access for colour-blind or other visually disabled people, for the information covered by use of color in a big system of list-tables within WikiProject NRHP. One heavy-handed way is to add a symbol tied to a legend to explain the info, in every cell in a table that is colored, but we'd like to try something else if possible. One editor more knowledgeable than me about programming commented: "I think it might be possible ... to define some text that appears only on a screen reader or on a printout, but not on a screen. This could be done with CSS classes that set "display:none" for screen media. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's currently a CSS class that defines different display methods for screen versus printers, screen readers, Braille readers, or other media where color can't be rendered. I've looked through the styles at Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes, but I'm not satisfied yet.... There may be other people who work on accessibility issues who might have some suggestions." (This is extract from here) Does anyone here have any suggestion, or anyone you can refer us to? doncram (talk) 00:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
JoinThis project is really needed. I have watched my mother and colleagues who haven't used Wikipedia before (or the internet for that matter) and can provide a good report on what needs to be fixed (which is a lot!). More to come... -- penubag (talk) 06:34, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
ArbCom election reminder: voting closes 14 DecemberDear colleagues This is a reminder that voting is open until 23:59 UTC next Monday 14 December to elect new members of the Arbitration Committee. It is an opportunity for all editors with at least 150 mainspace edits on or before 1 November 2009 to shape the composition of the peak judicial body on the English Wikipedia. On behalf of the election coordinators. Tony (talk) 09:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC) font-sizeEvery now and then someone change the font-size in the reference section. This is done at the somewhat obscure MediaWiki talk:Common.css page, which perhaps only the more technically savvy are aware of. However, many have problems reading small text, and reading on screen doesn't makes it any easier, so I think it is unfortunate. There is currently a discussion going on there (MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Reflist font size) that is suffering from lack of interest right now. It would be nice to get some more input on this. OpenID at WikipediaWhile not related to accessibility in terms of aiding the disabled, OpenID could make login and registration at Wikipedia even easier. A while ago, the WP:OpenID Proposal was made, but never really took off. I have expressed my feelings at User:B Fizz/OpenID and invite you to all to join with me in discussing the ups and downs of the proposal. ...but what do you think? ~BFizz 10:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Accessibility/usability mini-debates over Template:NoticeReaders here may care about 1 or more of the 4 subthreads of Template talk:Notice#Cleanup fixes. I can't think of an anti-usability/accessibility forum here, so I'm not sure whom else to notify who might have a stake in this. :-/ — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 00:17, 29 January 2010 (UTC) Accessibility noticeboardDoes this project maintain a noticeboard, similar to the administrators' noticeboard? I ask because an editor has removed the alt tags from Lady Gaga, and I'd like other editors to review the alt text. I didn't know if this was the place to make the request, or if there's another venue. —C.Fred (talk) 07:10, 10 February 2010 (UTC) This template places an inappropriate comment under a semi-transparent floating divbox. I cannot myself see where it would go wrong, but this seems like the sort of thing that might cause difficulties with accessibility. Discussion at Template talk:Inappropriate comment. Many thanks to anyone who can take a look. - 2/0 (cont.) 18:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Graphic texts unreadable when using accessibility featuresI have a visual impairment that makes it difficult to read black text on a white background, and so I have used the accessibility wizard on my computer to set up all windows with black backgrounds and white text (including on my web browser). Wikipedia is almost perfectly compatible with this feature, except that graphic texts are sometimes "blanked out". As an example, on the page for the ampersand or "and" symbol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand) under the "History" subheading, there is a graphic box with the caption "Evolution of the ampersand". When viewed normally (or with black text on a white background), there is a very interesting and useful series of numbered symbols that are precursors to the modern ampersand. Yet, when using the accessibility option of white text on a black background, the black-colored symbols are unreadable against the also black background. Is there a way to have such graphic texts also be converted to a white color, like the rest of the text on each page? This would make it possible for a visually impaired person (such as myself) to read Wikipedia pages without missing out on the graphic additions to the articles. Help, please?--Leonwyot (talk) 06:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC) Template talk:Earthquakes in 2010Input requested at Template talk:Earthquakes in 2010#Accessibility. Rettetast (talk) 15:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC) (I originally posted this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas/San Antonio, but since that's a very, very small project, I'm posing this request here as well given the much larger membership here. Since I originally posted it, the CSD mentioned below has been processed. But the basic action request still stands.) Morgan's Wonderland is getting national attention. I think it really deserves an article on the project. At the time of this writing, it has one, but it is a blatant copyvio, based originally off of a cut&paste from the park's press release. This creates major issues, not the least being the copyvio itself, and the totally promotional nature of the text. I've tagged the page for G12 CSD deletion, as I don't really think there's much salvageable there, given the roots of the current article. But once the G12 CSD is processed, I think we do need an article in that place. Given all the current media attention, I would think there would be plenty of sourcing for a good, non-spammy article. But my skills do not lie in article writing. (I'm a Wiki-gnome by skill set.) So I'm asking if one of the other wiki-project folks would be willing/able to take on the task of, fairly quickly, getting a real, non-copyvio, non-spam, article written up to replace the current one. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC) Paralympics Task ForceThe Paralympics Task Force Invitation!
Bib (talk) 08:54, 24 April 2010 (UTC) Discussion re poor colour contrast on maps at World Cup articleCould people with good knowledge about how to produce maps which are legible to people with a range of different types of colour vision please provide input at [[1]]? The thread concerns the introduction of a map which colour codes how far different team reach in the competition. Someone is defending the scheme on the grounds that it matches the equally-illegible maps in the other world cup articles. Some support especially with people who can give clear advice on how to fix the maps will be useful.--Peter cohen (talk) 14:19, 22 June 2010 (UTC) Plant and animal distribution mapsHi - I'd like to draw your attention to a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Biogeographical maps about colours on plant and animal range maps. Your input would be appreciated. Cheers Kahuroa (talk) 01:54, 27 April 2010 (UTC) Timeline of computingTimeline of computing may be of concern. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:44, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
RfC on ConsensusGiven WP:CONLIMITED, to what extent and under what circumstances can individual WikiProjects and users customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines? Interested contributors are invited to participate there. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC) Problem with grayscale printout of articles?Hi, I'm reposting an issue that was brought up at WP:EAR that I thought the good folks at this project could hash out more readily (original thread). The editor noted that using the "download as PDF" feature, and printing out the PDF on a grayscale printer, produced a problem with the S.M.A.R.T. article. The editor posted a scan of the PDF ([2]); compare to the table at S.M.A.R.T.#Known ATA S.M.A.R.T. attributes, specifically those cells that are shaded red and have an arrow (e.g., "Reallocated Sectors Count"). Clearly, the colors are chosen to provide good contrast, but when converted to grayscale, they appear to render as the same shade. This doesn't appear to be a problem with the PDF generator or the version of the article linked to. Thanks for your help! —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 13:19, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Improvements to this projectHi all. I'd like to improve this project greatly using the guidelines and experience we have on the french Wikipedia. The french accessibility project was founded by by an accessibility expert, who is still leading the project. So we have detailed guidelines, accurate reviews, a clear approach and all. I have a ton of things to improve here. My first job will be to create a sandbox page to prepare great changes to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility). After a discussion on it's talkpage, we saw there is a real need to prepare the great changes that I need to make to this MoS page. Afterwards (and if I have enough time), I'd like to create a FAQ, a list of resources, guidelines for template editors and developers, coordination and task force pages, a page to teach the methodology used to work on accessibility, and so on. The one thing that would really help me is to get help from french to english translators. I'm not familiar with en.wiki yet. Anyone willing to give a hand with this translations is warmly welcomed. Also, if anyone knows where to ask help from translators please tell me. :-) Kind regards, Dodoïste (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
New logo for Wikiproject AccessibilityHi! I wanted to have some fun, so I made a new logo. How do you like it? :-) Kind regards, Dodoïste (talk) 21:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
articles related to accessibility of computers and internetPlease see this thread over at WikiProject Disability for our discussion on the probable need for merging these articles. We would appreciate your input and the chance to talk with you on this matter. Thanks. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC) As this concerns a proposed accessibility change, I invite any interested parties to provide input at the above thread. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 03:37, 29 September 2010 (UTC) Template update: em and strongI've updated Template:Strong and created a matching Template:Em. These not only make it easier to use the <:strong> and <em> which can be styled differently than non-semantic boldface and italics, the templates should also thwart the ability of the average bot or WP:AWB run to turn intentional semantic use of the strong and em elements into wikimarkup plain bold and italic. I've already found one bot (Yobot (talk · contribs)) that has been making invalid changes of this sort, and have asked the operator of the bot to make it stop doing that, but inevitably there will be other bot authors and various random editors, who (manually and with AWB) will make such changes because they don't understand Web semantics and separation of content and presentation. These templates should put up at least a minor barrier to willy-nilly undoing of semantic markup. And it's a little easier to type
Colored map accessibility cleanupIf anyone's an old hand at SVG maps and has some time to kill, please see Talk:Sexually transmitted disease#xs. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 05:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Warning and information templatesI came here because of some comments from User talk:204.112.104.172. This user's page says they're blind so images are useless for them. when someone templated them about a MOS issue with a template that contained an image they've complained here [3] where they said:
My understanding is this is more of a personal preference thing, and the presence of the image in the template doesn't cause any disruption to screen readers, am I right? (I can understand why someone who uses a screen reader and can't see the images might not like unnecessary images.) We don't currently have alt text for the information/warning icons in templates from what I can tell. Looking at the survey linked above, it suggests what I would expect, whether to give alt text when it doesn't really matter is not something that there's any real agreement on. But in general do people feel our user warning and information templates are fine for those using screen readers? Are there any ways we can improve them? Nil Einne (talk) 05:41, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
The current "collapsible menu" is buggy in all its states --- unexpanded, collapsed, expanded --- on my MS Internet Explorer. I would favor either redoing the box using a standard collapsible menu, if it would meet the needs of users with visual impairments just as well. Thanks! Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 19:09, 3 November 2010 (UTC) (P.S. I left this message on the menu's discussion page, which is nearly empty: Thus, I leave another message here.)
Featured list candidate and accessibilityWell here we are again. Another WP:FLC vs WP:MOS vs WP:DISCOGSTYLE vs WP:ACCESS scenario. The discussion, so far, centres on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Fantasia Barrino discography/archive1. Within this FLC, it was revealed that a number of featured lists have been modified for accessibility purposes, while there still seems to be an internal conflict with MOS. I'd like some more insight into what's going on here before I revert all the relevant changes to those lists. It mainly centres around (1) the wild overuse of bold text and (2) the over-the-top textual description of each table, again in bold, at the top of each table. Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:48, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Table headingsI have another question. In this table (an example of one of the worst formatted tables I have ever seen) which has recently been updated by the ACCESS crew, there's a table heading which effectively repeats what's in the table. What is the purpose of this heading? Is it for screen readers? Also, that table uses small text, which (in my admittedly naive mind) would prove more of a problem in accessibility terms, than non-bold text. Should that be "fixed" (i.e. we should never use small fonts)? The Rambling Man (talk) 15:43, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I've attempted to start a centralised discussion here. Please contribute there. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Accessibility of ƒAt Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Back to the original discussion there is a discussion over the use of the character ƒ. An unresolved question is how accessible the character is, especially compared to the letter f. Because nobody there has much experience with these issues, I would like someone more knowledgeable to advise us. Can someone from this WikiProject help? Thanks. Ozob (talk) 21:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Linking short titlesWhen displayed article titles are very short--say, just one or two characters--it can be difficult sometimes for any user to get the mouse over the hot spot. (The particular case I have in mind is the link to the article I (EP) in the Infobox of Nothing (Meshuggah album).) Is there any way to give a short link a slightly wider hot spot to improve accessibility?--ShelfSkewed Talk 06:12, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Requesting editor commentsHello. Currently there is a large discussion going on at the Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). The issue has been debated for months now and one aspect of it that frequently comes up is the possibility of a compromise based on the use of tooltips. While many editors are in favor of this compromise, the worry is that it will violate WP:ACCESS. I am now asking for comments on this issue. To sum it up as briefly as possible:
The first guideline is clearly in line with WP:ACCESS. So does the compromise meet the requirements of WP:ACCESS? You can either post your answers here or at the Request for comment on Nihongotip Compromise at WP:ACCESS subsection of the discussion. Thanks for any help you folks can provide! -Thibbs (talk) 00:43, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Infobox stadium/tenantlist Unresolved {{Infobox stadium/tenantlist}} needs some accessibility improvements; I don't have time at present, if someone else fancies a go. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:04, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, but I don't think that's fixed the problem. Look, for instance, at Long Island Arena. The dates are not semantically associated with the respective clubs. They now render as: Long Island Ducks (EHL) New York Tapers (ABL) New York Nets (ABA) Long Island Cougars (NAHL) Long Island Ducks (EBA) 1959-1973 1962 1968-1969 1973-1975 1977-1978 when Long Island Ducks (EHL) 1959-1973 New York Tapers (ABL) 1962 New York Nets (ABA) 1968-1969 Long Island Cougars (NAHL) 1973-1975 Long Island Ducks (EBA) 1977-1978 would make more sense. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:24, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
This still needs fixing. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC) Create cleanup templates for accessibility?I was looking at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup and didn't see any template to mark a page as needing accessibility cleanup. I think it would be good to have one or more. I'm not sure whether it might be best to have just one which reads: This page may have content which is not accessible to people with disabilities. See the talk page for details. or divide it by type of disability (blind, low-vision, mobility) or type of content (tables, images, maps). At the very least, there would be a second template: This page may have content which cannot be made accessible due to Wiki software limitations. See the talk page for details. which would not encourage editing but rather would serve as an alert to people with disabilities that they may encounter problems with the page. Perhaps that one needs to be split up by particular issue (collapsing tables, etc.) so that when the particular software issue is resolved, either all such messages can be removed or the pages be marked for code update as appropriate. Thisisnotatest (talk) 07:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Screen magnifiers and <DOLPHINTEXT> tagsHas anyone with a screen magnifier experienced a problem like this one? I've been using a magnifier for a couple of years, but this problem has only recently started occurring. Apparently, according to this discussion the software is inserting its own tags, something I don't think it should be doing. If there are others experiencing this I'm wondering if it's worth creating some kind of template that users with the software could add to their user or talk pages to let others know of the problem, and hopefully avoid any misunderstanding. I wouldn't like myself - or any other users - to be accused of vandalism when that wasn't the case. Any thoughts on this guys? Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Instructions for Lunar
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Cheers and good luck to all. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
General AccessibilityHi folks, I don't know if this is the right place to post but you can maybe point me in the right direction. I am new editor. It's taken months of struggle to finally be directed to this page. I have the following suggestions:
I think a lot of the problems I have identified above would probably apply to sighted users as well. I think the problem could lie partially in the fact that many editors have been here a long time and because they know where everything is, they forget how hard it is to find things when you don't know where to look or how to do things. It took me several days, for example to work out what wikipedia meant by a template and how exactly I was supposed to put the help me template on my user page. Aakheperure (talk) 23:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Horizontal lists in navboxesMany thousands of Wikipedia articles have navboxes, in which lists of links are presented, horizontally, without using list mark-up, but instead using I created {{Flatlist}} in an attempt to begin addressing this, but previous discussion (two-and-a-half years ago) petered out before various concerns were resolved. Now that CSS an browsers have moved on, I'd like us to find a solution. Please contribute to centralised discussion on MoS (accessibility). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:09, 28 March 2011 (UTC) ColourCould a user well-versed in accessibility issues (particularly in the use of colour in article text) please comment at Talk:List of bus routes in Ipswich & Woodbridge#Overcoloured. The article itself bears a
Dolphin and IE8Hi. I've been experiencing problems editing in IE8 with Dolphin software running, and just wondered if anyone else had encountered this problem. It started when I upgraded from IE7 to IE8, and began with my being unable to edit semi-protected pages, although it has now spread to everything. Basically it's only allowing me to use Wikipedia in readonly format. Is there a bug to fix it? Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 13:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Succession boxesWe're discussing the use of colours in succession boxes over at WT:SBS. Some input in regard to Usability and Accessibility would be appreciated. Thanks. Bazj (talk) 12:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC) Heading issue in 'Documentation' templateThere's an outstanding accessibity issue with header levels in {{Documentation}}; see Template talk:Documentation/Archive 4#Heading fix which still needs attention. Earlier discussion, with one dissenting voice, is at Template talk:Documentation/Archive 2#Heading fix.Could we get some extra eyeballs on that, please, and comments in the new section at Template talk:Documentation#Heading fix redux? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:22, 16 May 2011 (UTC) New template requested — Discreet abbreviationHello, See this discussion. --Nnemo (talk) 23:46, 24 September 2011 (UTC) HelloHi guys, I don't know how active this project is but I've been merrily hacking away at the Assistive_technology article - it's still very rough and it could do with a few more editors helping out or giving opinions :) let me know if anyone fancies a push on it :) Failedwizard (talk) 21:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC) Infobox college football single gameI'm concerned about the accessibility of the table in {{Infobox college football single game}}. See 2006 Michigan vs. Ohio State football game for an example. Does anyone agree, and can anybody suggest how it might be improved? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:43, 28 November 2011 (UTC) Alt text in galleries: now possible!Hello. We can now add alt text to galleries. I would appreciate a few inputs on how to update the guidelines. Please see Wikipedia talk:Alternative text for images#Alt text for galleries. Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 01:21, 7 December 2011 (UTC) Accessibility of junction templateThe junction template is not accessible as it does not produce a unique first column that can be used by blind people to distinguish each row from the next. It would be better to use mile as the first column, since that is unique within a state. If a junction table covers multiple states, then perhaps it would have to be broken into a series of tables, one per state. Thisisnotatest (talk) 08:38, 22 December 2011 (UTC) Current broader activityCould anyone clarify whether there's any ongoing secondary focus on broader accessibility issues anywhere, as mentioned on the front page here? I saw in first talk archive there may have originally been a very broad ambition regarding a one-to-one service to help people contribute, but get impression that now things are very narrowly focused on webpage/article appearance, and maybe only really active over at the Manual Of Style? Does anyone have any plans to develop guidance or help pages on the broader issues? They don't seem to be mentioned in the current documents, but I see in the second archive someone talking about having suffered through all the help pages & not finding a place like this for months. Or is this maybe considered more a 'meta' issue relating to Wikimedia rather than just Wikipedia in itself? I'd be interested in trying to help in this area, particularly in regard to mental disorder issues, but I wonder what experience might suggest could be the best or most active base for such efforts? Eversense (talk) 00:37, 29 December 2011 (UTC) Infoboxes and PlainlistSee Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Using Plainlist in Infobox film The nutshell is a concern about replacing the use of <br> in infoboxes with {{Plainlist}}. I think that this may trace back to an accessibility issue, but I'm not sure. Can any one here shed some light on this and provide a little clarity over at Film? Thanks, - J Greb (talk) 01:00, 30 December 2011 (UTC) Display problem with mathematical formulas in dark themesA user just posted Wikipedia:Help_desk#Feature request: displaying mathematical equations as png images with solid background. To me, this seems like an accessibility issue because it makes it (almost) impossible to read formulas when a high contrast theme has been selected, even for a person with no visual impairment such as me. You're the experts, so I'll let you judge if it's worth a feature request. — Sebastian 00:11, 2 January 2012 (UTC) (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.) NBA colorMany of the colour-combinations used by {{NBA color}} do not meet current WCAG] accessibility guidelines, and so breach MOS:COLOR, because they the foreground and background are not distinguishable from each other. Your comments on how to resolve this are invited, at Template talk:NBA color#Accessibility. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:32, 5 January 2012 (UTC) Headings in Infobox3cols{{Infobox3cols}}, for example as {{Infobox football biography}} on Fred Barron (footballer), has, four column headings (in that example, Years, Team, Apps†, and (Gls)†). only the first of these is a Re: iPhone 4SPlease see Talk:IPhone_4S#Accessibility. Viriditas (talk) 11:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC) Question about accessibility tagThe dissociative identity disorder page currently has a {{AccessibilityDispute}} tag at the top. My understanding is that the tag is meant to be used for those with reading issues. Another editor Tomcloyd (talk · contribs) is using it because he believes the article and talk page is hostile and unwelcoming to those with dissociative identity disorder (that is, the page presents no reading issues but Tom believes the tag should be used because it is emotionally distressing for those diagnosed with DID). Is this the appropriate use of the tag and is this part of the wikiproject's scope? WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 13:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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