On Don, 2003-01-02 at 03:14, rose.parks(a)att.net wrote:
Happy 2003!
I have been hoping that someone else would bring
up the issue of
accessibility in Wikipedia. Yet, having read over 20 e-mails on the problem of
our many and multi-colored links, I saw no mention of this issue. If Derek
Moore is having trouble with these links, try to imagine how useless these
color schemes are to a blind user. Do all members agree with him, that since he
is in a color blind minority, no attempt should be made to remedy the situation?
I am all for making Wikipedia more accessible, but not if that happens
at the disadvantage of the majority of users. Adding stuff like CSS for
Braille readers and text-to-speech synthesis is reasonable. BTW, if you
disable the "Highlight links to empty topics" user preference, broken
links are rendered
Nonexistent Page?
instead of
Nonexistent Page
in red. This is the original wiki style, which is horrible from a
usability perspective, but works better for text-to-speech synthesis and
the like.
If we add the CSS stuff, we need to figure out how to automatically do
this for tables, which are currently not standardized on Wikipedia (i.e.
table designs vary a lot). This would be a good thing to keep in mind
when we address table support in Wiki-syntax.
Regards,
Erik
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