-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/24/2013 03:17 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Please note that "screen readers" and "readers without JavaScript" aren't > in any way the same thing -- modern screen readers hook into "real > browsers" like IE, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and JavaScript runs just > great in them. > > Serious accessibility concerns should really be referred to someone who's > an expert... do we have anybody on staff or volunteer who has real, direct, > current experience with vision-impaired users and their needs? > > -- brion > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Pau Giner pginer@wikimedia.org wrote: > >>> >>> Also, did you think of the accessibility issues in your solution? >> >> >> First, I want to clarify that the prototype was made just to communicate >> the idea in terms of interaction. The The implementation is just a quick >> hack to simulate this interaction. >> >> For a production implementation I can image the whole list of languages to >> be sent to the client, and then, the list being shortened by Javascript. >> For those users without Javascript (from screen-readers, to Search engine >> crawlers) the same list of links they receive now will be available for >> them. >> >> In any case, developers could provide even better strategies to solve that. >> As an interaction designer I just wanted to share the idea to collect >> possible concerns with the interaction proposed, to be fixed in next >> iterations of the designs before development effort is made. >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Mathieu Stumpf < >> psychoslave@culture-libre.org> wrote: >> >>> Also, did you think of the accessibility issues in your solution? Here I >>> especialy think of people with view disabilities, for who js often mean >>> no way to get the content, while a long list of hyperlinks is >>> manageable. >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >