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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