Hi Members,
I found Derek Moore's attitude toward his problem seeing our many multicolor links in Wikipedia, due to color blindness, a bit startling. He said, today: <snip> I suppose I'm the color blind minority, so I can just put up with full underlines.
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 think at this stage in Wikipedia's development, some of the basic accessibility features might be incorporated in our software - like not depending on color coding to convey information, and adding descriptions to all images. I am strongly in favor of such features. Unfortunately, my programming skills are not nearly strong enough to try to add any. Hopefully, some of the developers will agree that accessibility is important and will be willing to work on adding some of these features.
Opinion, please.???
For those members unfamiliar with what kind of features I am talking about, please see the W3 Consortium's Web Content Guidelines for Accessibility at: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
As Ever,
Ruth Ifcher
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