On 09/09/2014 07:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

Hi,

Disclaimer: Though I worked in an accessibility software company for
three years, I know almost nothing about color blindness, so this
question may be silly.

A participant in a recent workshop for new Wikipedia editors workshop in
Israel complained that he cannot tell red links from blue links because
he is color-blind.

Has this issue ever been noticed or addressed by anybody?

The only related thing I can think of is the option to show links to
nonexistent pages with a question mark, which was disabled on Wikimedia
sites a year or two ago. Is there anything else?

Besides the hypothetical ideas mentioned, there is the option to add user CSS.

Although not truly user friendly, this is a little easier than it used to be (you can now make personal customizations without copying them to every WMF site).  As long as you have a global account (many users do, including most new ones), you just have to go to:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/global.css

You can then add arbitrary CSS rules, e.g.:

/* Red links */
a.new {
  color: pink;
}

which will apply on all WMF sites (it is still possible to add rules that only apply on one site at Special:MyPage/common.css (all skins) or Special:MyPage/vector.css (Vector)).

Matt Flaschen

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