[Foundation-l] VPAT

[aude]

On Feb 20, 2011, at 5:36 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Spreading free knowledge implies a good free knowledge infrastructure,
> including reputable free knowledge tools. We don't need the US govt  
> to use
> any given software, it pays to make it as widely usable and not block
> ourselves from any major group who might want to try using Mediawiki.
>
> Not least 1/ the US govt is not the only such body (other groups  
> receiving
> federal funds?) and 2/ we ourselves have a genuine interest in  
> ensuring we
> think hard how those with disabilities experience Wikimedia in  
> everyday use,
> when creating our platform.

+1

Free knowledge for everyone is a key part of our mission, and everyone  
certainly includes the blind and those with other disabilities. And  
wikipedia is something that supposedly "anyone can edit".

Section 508, widely used beyond government, is a benchmark to allow us  
to assess how we do in this regard.

Since the US gov already uses mediawiki, know we have some admins that  
use a screen reader, know mediawiki supports keyboard shortcuts, etc.,  
then I think we do pretty well to meet 508 though an assessment might  
identify some additional bugs.

I would totally support us doing a VPAT (its voluntary) assessment and  
have it available on mediawiki wiki.

Katie (@aude)


> FT2
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>
>> Since we are not funded by the government and we have no relation  
>> what
>> so ever with the US government I don't see what VPAT has any  
>> relevance
>> to us. If the US government think MediaWiki doesn't fulfill the
>> condition, they had to use another wiki engine I am afraid.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Ting
>>
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