Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility

message: I just read this wikiproject page and perused the talk page. Are there guidelines for formatting to accommodate users who might have low vision issues (not actually blind, and not using any accommodative technology)? 
I have poor eyesight (that's all I'm going to say on it) and, as examples, I like a lot of whitespace (glossary style rather than bulleted lists which present as walls of text), no unnecessary table formats (difficult to edit), and simpler images which show the subject (rather than 'busy' images which contain the subject but are hard to distinguish).
I haven't found any policies that suggest these ideas. Currently I'm dealing with swapping out images for better, simpler ones, but occasionally run into someone who wants to keep their favorite photos on display. A policy would be nice to support my changes.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  02:24, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: All that immediately comes to mind is having accessibility via CSS to increase font size and contrast and to use SVG where appropriate, so it can be infinitely magnified with no loss of clarity. It would probably be nice if we had collections of user scripts that enhance visibility... ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:28, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low vision, but not blind 

message: I'm curious if there is a Wikipedia-specific tool/gadget people can use to check a page's accessibility. I know other communities have specific tools/gadgets to make their jobs easier. For example, Did You Know...? (DYK), has something that with a single click analyzes the page for various factors to help determine eligibility for DYK. There's also the Edward Betts 'tool' for finding links to articles (often used to help orphaned articles) or check I'm wondering if there's something similar so users can quickly check the accessibility of a page and learn how to fix it, kind of like the "Check accessibility" feature in Microsoft Word. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 20:44, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I had the same question.  I looked at https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey9/?hss_channel=tw-2382446636 and picked VoiceOver, as it was readily available to me.  YMMV. RudolfoMD (talk) 09:07, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tool/Gadget for checking accessibility? 

message: Hello,
I always assumed the :Template:Skip to talk was primarily for accessibility allowing screen readers to skip past heading content, however when I read the template page, no mention is made of accessibility, so I may very well be under false impressions. Not urgent, but clarification as to its role in accessibility might help the template page.  // Timothy :: talk  05:30, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure it's related to accessibility. I think it's just to skip long talk page preambles... like on this page. I get tired of scrolling down to get to the table of contents.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  06:17, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skip to talk and accessibility 

message: I noticed that there's a ton of articles tagged with this project's template. Considering this project deals with the accessibility of Wikipedia as a whole rather than improving disability related articles, I was wondering what the best thing to do about it is. KaraLG84 (talk) 00:35, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This project was created in October 2007, long before the creation of WikiProject Disability in 2010, so the fact that we have articles under our scope is basically a historical artifact (ditto with the concept of this WikiProject, to be honest). To cut a long story short, the people who created this project were quite ambitious and are no longer here ... and I wasn't and am still not quite so keen but I'm still around. :-) WikiProjects as an institution are generally not doing too well these days; a cleanup could be done but I don't have a strong opinion on it. Graham87 (talk) 04:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query re articles tagged with WikiProject Accessibility template 

message: I can't use Vector Wikipedia due to migraines, and redirect to Mobile Wikipedia.
I also switch fonts and increase font sizes due to eye strain. Now Mobile Wikipedia limits many lines to 24 px to 27 px. Which can be awfully cramped. I think Mobile Wikipedia should either revert the change or use a multiple of the users' specified font size. 173.66.17.86 (talk) 02:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This is being discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Mobile font line spacing. I'll copy your comment over there and any other comments should be made there. Graham87 (talk) 07:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line-Height in Mobile Wikipedia 

message: Looking thru :Category:Cleanup templates, I don't see any tags specifically calling out accessibility issues. I'm thinking that we could have a couple to flag issues with articles like "This article may not have sufficient color contrast" or "This article uses tables lacking semantic data (captions and scopes)" or "This article uses tables with column headers". This could be useful for users who don't feel confident directly editing complex tables without messing them up or who may not be able to figure out appropriate color contrast themselves. Do others think that a few tags like this would be handy? If so, which other kinds of tags could/should we have? Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We have . --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:58, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accessibility cleanup tags 

message: There is a proposal at Wikipedia talk:Linter which may be of interest to users here. The idea is track use of images without alt text, and then to surface adding alt text as a suggested "microtask" in the Wikipedia mobile app. the wub "?!" 11:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed tracking for images without alt text 

message: There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Reconsider ellipsis ... vs … preference as to changing Wikipedia's style to change from  (three dots) with  (Unicode ellipsis, U+2026). Please contribute there to help with that discussion. Thank you.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  23:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a preference from an accessibility standpoint for ellipses (...) style?