On 12 June 2014 11:47, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:
"Wikis aren't accessible" is one of those things people say, but nobody
has yet provided anything concrete to explain that position.
Not helped by a required disambiguation:
*"Accessible" in common parlance for a website may equate to easy
navigation.
*"Accessibility" in a technical sense (that is very much in play around
WMUK) equates to "readability" for those using a screen reader.
The latter is a matter of good practice in use of wikitext, so that the
HTML on the pages helps rather than hinders. The former is a mixture of
good design and good practice (e.g. portals and categories, respectively -
if categorisation of pages is deficient, sheer guesswork may be needed to
know whether a topic is covered on a wiki or not).
I'm all for having some good design in the mix.
Charles