Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility

Welcome to the Accessibility WikiProject!

This project aims to make Wikipedia accessible for users with disabilities. More specifically, accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with Wikipedia, and that they can contribute to Wikipedia. Accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.

Details about the WikiProject Accessibility

Scope

The primary focus is on improving the accessibility of articles. The secondary focus is on actively assisting editors with disabilities or other characteristics which inhibit their ability to contribute to the encyclopedia.

Methodology

The approach to make Wikipedia accessible is based on the W3C's official WCAG 2.0 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. The guidelines provided by this accessibility project are merely an attempt to reword the WCAG 2.0 into a guideline hopefully easier to understand for editors who are not familiar with accessibility or web development.

Related WikiProjects

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Participants

There is a bot automatically generated list of active editors.

If you are interested in being part of this group, please add your name to the following list; it is ordered alphabetically.

47thPennVols (talk)
A Highway Got Paved Over My Future, I Drive It Getting to School is dedicated to adding alt text to album covers.
A Lambent Eye (Talk) is new to Wikipedia and eager to help.
a11ygeorge (talk) would like to help update and expand information on international web accessibility laws
Adrian M. H.
AimeeMaree
Akjar13
Annettet
AquitaneHungerForce (talk)
Ashertheaxolotl I am a disabled Wikipedian with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and hyperacusis. I would like to contribute to making this site more accessible for people with disabilities!
AtomsOrSystems (talk)
Axciom (Talk)
B2project
Bauani
Beloved Freak
Blue Pumpkin Pie
BlueboyLINY
Bsherr (talk)
~ Rob^Talk
Caleb Bond
cannona
♫CheChe♫ talk
Checkingfax
Chlod (say hi!)
User:CircleGirl
CM2G0005
Contrawwftw
CrazyBuilder. This season, I am mostly adding captions to data tables to benefit screen reader users. I am also replacing inappropriate table markup with a description list (or whatever is more appropriate).
DarkArcherPrince
Diana LaRose
Dodoïste (talk)
Domeditrix (talk · contribs)
doorautomatica talk
DotilasoFa Mi Re Do! Di Ri Fi Si Li Te Le Se Me Ra! is an autistic Wikipedian who can help with color schemes and color-related issues.
-- dsprc ^[talk]
Eewilson – talk (tag or ping me!)
Est. 2021 (talk · contribs)
EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}}
Flounder ceo
Funandtrvl (talk · contribs)
Geekdiva (talk) (Ironically, my disability will prevent me from being very active. Heh! But I appreciate everyone's hard work and will do what I can when I can.)
GJR, a.k.a. oedipus (GJR's talk page | GJR's contributions)
Graham87
Héron du fleuve (talk · contribs)
House Blaster^talk
HueAskew (Talk)
Rahul Pandey
user:irtapil - My favourite parts of Wikipedia are the tables. These are what i find easiest to understand, due to my own combination of strengths and struggles, and i expect i am not alone in this. But i know tables can cause accessibility problems for some readers, so i'm keen to help optimise them. User_talk:irtapil
Jack345110 - I have ADHD, Dyslexia and traits of autism so I find it hard to focus on something sometimes especially if I get bored of it.
Jidanni
User:John Carter
Jomanila
-- Daniel Jones (talk)
Jonathan Bowen
Juwan (talk)
KaraLG84Talk Page
l'aquatique[talk]
-- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me
Macadamia14
Matt Fitzpatrick (talk)
matthewcock
Max Viwe | Viwe The Max
MeekMark (talk · contribs)
Mgifford
Mooeena
Mr. Yondris Ferguson (Leave a Comment)
MxSch (talk) Autistic pedant keen on alt text and Disabled perspectives being central to any and all articles involving disabilities.
Neranei (talk)
user:orngjce223 how am I typing?
OwenBlacker
Patient Zero^talk
The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk)
—PC -XT +
User:Pedant
-- penubag (talk)
Phorestry (talk) - I put {{lang}} tags to foreign language texts because it provides better accessibility and other benefits. I also have some experience transcribing online image posts into text, so I can help providing alt text to images that need them.
Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett
pjoef (talk • contribs)
Pretended leer
Purplewowies
Quiddity
RexxS (talk)
Significa liberdade
SFB
small jars tc - Interested in refactoring table based layouts in templates for mobile and large-font-size responsivity, and maintaining language tags for screen readers. I've suffered mild dyslexia and a slow reading speed since my childhood, so I'm sympathetic to people suffering from accessibility issues on wp.
Smartyllama
SomeoneDreaming
Spencergreenwood (talk)
SunnySydeRamsay (talk) IT Accessibility technician/web content developer at a major American research university with certifications in document accessibility and professional experience in WCAG AA compliance, functional accessibility testing, and providing consultations to people new to IT accessibility.
surueña
Techdude3331
the wub "?!"
TheAwesome Hwyh
Thisisnotatest (Thisisnotatest's talk page)
tombabinszki
Tom Cloyd (talk) - Interested in mental-health-related accessibility issues - certainly an orphan area. We haven't a lot of external guidance to draw upon. A problem.
WikiMacaroons (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Winxrocker
–xeno (talk)
yutsi
Zend2020 Accessibility for people living with Disabilities PLWD particularly visually impaired and blind people

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External watchlist

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