User: Graham87/Accessibility wishlist

Revision as of 07:00, 10 June 2011

Here is my wishlist for Wikipedia accessibility:

I use User:Graham87 vector as a test account for the Vector skin on Wikipedia; otherwise I use the Monobook skin. The Vector-related problems with the highest priority that are already noted at the page about accessibility on MediaWiki.org are probably:

Fix bug 11555, so that heading tags don't contain the word "edit"; this causes a screen reader user who is navigating by headings to constantly hear the word "edit" as part of the heading title. See bug 11555.
Make alt text handling more sane so that screen reader users don't have to hear the file name of images all the time. See bug 24586.
At the moment, when a user writes a list in MediaWiki and separates each item by more than one line break, they will unknowingly generate multiple HTML lists. For example, a screen reader would read such a list like this: "list of 1 item, A, list end; list of 1 item, b, list end; list of 1 item, C, list end" instead of "list of 3 items, a, b, c, list end". See the relevant text about accessibility of lists in Wikipedia.
As far as I know, the licensing tutorial for the Commons upload wizard is presently a comic, which is completely inaccessible to screen reader users. It would

be nice if there was a version of the tutorial in a format more accessible to the blind. Perhaps an audio/video presentation?

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-I use [[Wikipedia:User:Graham87 vector|User:Graham87 vector]] as a test account for the Vector skin; otherwise I use the Monobook skin. The Vector-related problems with the highest priority that are already noted at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility the page about accessibility on MediaWiki.org] are probably:
+I use [[Wikipedia:User:Graham87 vector|User:Graham87 vector]] as a test account for the Vector skin on Wikipedia; otherwise I use the Monobook skin. The Vector-related problems with the highest priority that are already noted at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility the page about accessibility on MediaWiki.org] are probably:
 *[https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23428 bug 23428: Headers of collapsible (sub)menus in sidebar not accesible via keyboard]
 *[https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24298 Bug 24298 – Vector skin's dropdown action list troubles users without mice] - has the supposed fix gone live to Wikipedia yet?