On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)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:
But I wonder how much of that is really followed.
Should start a new thread, really.
Carcharoth