[Foundation-l] site notice not accessible to users with disabilities

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Brion Vibber <brion-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 1) The sitenotice is **not required** to use or operate the site; it's
> an extra. As such, not seeing it in an unsupported browser doesn't
> interfere with your ability to use the site -- this is called "graceful
> degradation" and is a web best practice.

No. In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation
"the image on the left has been designed to degrade gracefully, hence is
still meaningful without its transparency information".

Seeing the sitenotice *is* required to meaningfully participate in the
Wikimedia community. Else one would never know about Wikimania, or any
other event throughout the year.

If one couldn't see the whole site at all, one would be aware of what
one is missing. Instead, everything looks hunky dory. It's just that one
never receives party invitations.

> If you have technical suggestions for alternate implementations,
> they're welcome in a more relevant channel such as wikitech-l.

OK, fair enough. I was just hoping there was some list where somebody
still remembered accessibility.