Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility

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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.

See also: What is 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
The related and complementary WikiProjects are
 * WikiProject Usability
 * WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Writing Captions (related to alt text)
 * WikiProject Disability
 * Call a Wikipedian

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.


 * 1) 47thPennVols (talk)
 * 2) A Highway Got Paved Over My Future, I Drive It Getting to School is dedicated to adding alt text to album covers.
 * 3) A Lambent Eye (Talk) is new to Wikipedia and eager to help.
 * 4) a11ygeorge (talk) would like to help update and expand information on international web accessibility laws
 * 5)  Adrian M. H. 
 * 6) AimeeMaree
 * 7) Akjar13
 * 8) Annettet
 * 9) AquitaneHungerForce (talk)
 * 10) 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!
 * 11) AtomsOrSystems (talk)
 * 12) Axciom  (Talk)
 * 13) B2project
 * 14) Bauani
 * 15)  Beloved  Freak
 * 16) Blue Pumpkin Pie
 * 17) BlueboyLINY
 * 18) Bsherr (talk)
 * 19) ~ RobTalk
 * 20) Caleb Bond
 * 21) cannona
 * 22) ♫CheChe♫ talk
 * 23) Checkingfax
 * 24) Chlod (say hi!)
 * 25) User:CircleGirl
 * 26) CM2G0005
 * 27) Contrawwftw
 * 28) DarkArcherPrince
 * 29) Diana LaRose
 * 30) Dodoïste (talk)
 * 31)  doorautomatica   talk
 * 32) Dotilaso Fa 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.
 * 33) --  dsprc   [talk]
 * 34) Eewilson – talk (tag or ping me!)
 * 35) Est. 2021 (talk · contribs)
 * 36)  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) Please &#123;&#123;re&#125;&#125;
 * 37) Flounder ceo
 * 38) 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.)
 * 39) GJR, a.k.a. oedipus (GJR's talk page | GJR's contributions)
 * 40) Graham 87
 * 41) HouseBlastertalk
 * 42) HueAskew  (Talk)
 * 43) Rahul Pandey
 * 44) 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
 * 45)  - 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.
 * 46) Jidanni
 * 47) User:John Carter
 * 48) Jomanila
 * 49) -- Daniel Jones (talk)
 * 50) Jonathan Bowen
 * 51) KaraLG84Talk Page
 * 52) --  Lil_℧niquℇ №1  &#124;  talk2me 
 * 53) Macadamia14
 * 54) Matt Fitzpatrick (talk)
 * 55) matthewcock
 * 56) MatthewUtzig Reworking technical articles to make them easier to understand. Trying to add metadata to dates to make them more accessible.
 * 57)  Max Viwe  &#124;  Viwe The Max
 * 58) Mgifford
 * 59) Mooeena
 * 60) Mr. Yondris Ferguson (Leave a Comment)
 * 61) MxSch (talk) Autistic pedant keen on alt text and Disabled perspectives being central to any and all articles involving disabilities.
 * 62)  Ne ra n e i   (talk)
 * 63) user:orngjce223 how am I typing?
 * 64) OwenBlacker
 * 65) Patient Zerotalk
 * 66) The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk)
 * 67) —PC-XT+
 * 68) User:Pedant
 * 69) -- penubag  (talk)
 * 70) Phorestry (talk) - I put  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.
 * 71) Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett
 * 72) p joe f (talk • contribs)
 * 73) Pretended leer
 * 74) Purplewowies
 * 75) Quiddity
 * 76) RexxS (talk)
 * 77) Significa liberdade
 * 78) SFB
 * 79) small jars  - 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.
 * 80) Smartyllama
 * 81) SomeoneDreaming
 * 82) Spencergreenwood (talk)
 * 83) 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.
 * 84) surueña
 * 85) Techdude3331
 * 86) the wub  "?!"
 * 87)  TheAwesome  Hwyh
 * 88) Thisisnotatest (Thisisnotatest's talk page)
 * 89) tombabinszki
 * 90) 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.
 * 91) WikiMacaroons (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 92) Winxrocker
 * 93) –  xeno  ( talk )
 * 94) Zend2020 Accessibility for people living with Disabilities PLWD particularly visually impaired and  blind people
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) WikiMacaroons (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) Winxrocker
 * 4) –  xeno  ( talk )
 * 5) Zend2020 Accessibility for people living with Disabilities PLWD particularly visually impaired and  blind people

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External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Accessibility