On 12/02/2011 04:11 AM, wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:23:44 +0100
From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] [Foundation-l] Fundraising is
for men
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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2011/12/1 Carol Moore <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net>
> > On 11/29/2011 5:19 PM, emijrp wrote:
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Better, make Wikipedia friendly to disabled people,
the great forgotten
excluded people group. For example, blind people can't sign up because of
Wikipedia captcha (there is no sound captcha
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4845). That is a real
barrier which Wikimedia Foundation have to solve putting resources.
Where is the accessibility mailing list? Accessibility is a recommendation
by W3C since 1997, and we are in the top ten websites, as WMF likes to
boast.
I disagree strongly with emijrp on much of this topic, which I will not
go into here because (a) it's offtopic for this list and (b) the
Wikimedia movement has already agreed that increasing inclusivity to
women in the Wikimedia projects is important.
emijrp, thank you for drawing my attention to bug 4845. I added it to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
I see there was an Wikimedia accessibility hackathon led by Katie
Filbert (User:Aude) in Washington, DC in late November.
http://www.wikimediadc.org/wiki/Accessibility_hackathon At that event,
per
http://www.wikimediadc.org/wiki/Accessibility_hackathon/Fixes ,
"Katie replaced an inaccessible captcha on the "create a new account"
page of the
wikimediadc.org website, using a more accessible captcha
that features an audio recognition process." I'll contact her to ask if
that's the same switch that needs to be made for Wikimedia sites, and
whether she could take care of that.
And of course if you think there should be an accessibility mailing
list, you should start one!
Sorry for being offtopic.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation