On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
While we are on the Foundation and legal stuff, can someone tell me
whether
as a US-based 501(c)(3) organization there is any legal requirement for Wikipedia, as a website, to meet certain minimum accessibility
requirements?
None as a result of being a 501(c)(3). (If Wikimedia were a government agency OTOH...)
Never the less, it's obviously desirable to be as accessible as possible: I can't think of any reason why any material accessibility problems wouldn't be given a fairly high priority. Not only is accessibility good on its own merits but accessible development usually supports other things we consider good (such as broad client compatibility and machine readability).
Thanks. We have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility
But I wonder how much of that is really followed.
Should start a new thread, really.
Carcharoth