[Foundation-l] VPAT

[Ting Chen]

Hello Gerard,

while I totally agree with you about the usability part, what I want to 
say in my last mail is that there is no need for put the US government 
into your argumentation for it.

Greetings
Ting

On 20.02.2011 11:55, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> The United States government uses MediaWiki in several places. When you
> consider that most of the money donated to the Wikimedia Foundation is given
> by Americans and, when you consider that complying with a standard for
> usability is something that is a strategic goal, I do understand your pov
> but I do not agree.
>
> What we can do is check out to what extend we already comply. Given that we
> have several visually impaired editors even admins, the quality of our
> software is not that bad. Understanding what needs to be improved to comply
> with a standard like VPAT gives us a measurable goal to realise what is a
> strategic goal.
>
> By inviting the American government to work with us on this, we may even
> find that given that MediaWiki is Open Source / Free Software the government
> will do the testing for us.
>
> All in all, I advocate to use the question "to what extend does MediaWiki
> comply with VPAT" as an opportunity.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
> On 20 February 2011 08:51, 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
>>
>> On 16.02.2011 19:49, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>> Hoi,
>>> Given that Unites States government agencies do use MediaWiki, it is
>> quite a
>>> relevant question. Given that we provide such an important service on a
>>> worldwide scale, I would be interested in learning the answer to the
>>> question. Is that possible ?
>>>
>>> In the final analysis we can only achieve our aims well when we achieve
>>> highly in this respect.
>>> Thanks,
>>>        GerardM
>>>
>>> On 16 February 2011 19:43, Nathan<nawrich at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
>>>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>> What IS a VPAT for 508 in the first place ?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>        Gerard
>>>> See: http://www.section508.gov/
>>>>
>>>> Refers to a plan for compliance with a regulation designed to force
>>>> federally funded software products/services to be accessible for
>>>> people with disabilities.
>>>>
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