Accessibility guide for developers

Accessibility is important for our users and we can improve it if we take into account a few basic ideas and rules. Accessibility is difficult insofar as there are no fixed and universally accepted technical standards that actually work consistently and for all users. This page does not list or discuss specific accessibility problems in MediaWiki. It attempts to focus on technology choices and Do's and Don'ts to prevent accessibility problems.

In terms of development, I think this should be our rule book:
 * Try to enable our users (and that means all of them)
 * Try to work around issues of accessibility if that is possible, but not at all costs
 * We should use an approach of Progressive enhancement over that of Graceful degradation.
 * Implement things that are technologically sound

We should never forget that we already are considered to be quite accessible.

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Mitchell Gabor
Mitchell Gabor