On 12/02/2011 04:11 AM, wiki-research-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:23:44 +0100 From: emijrp emijrp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] [Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

2011/12/1 Carol Moore carolmooredc@verizon.net

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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.