Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/uk

Інтерфейс проєктів Вікімедіа мусить бути доступним і читомим, незалежно від мови чи писемності. Це стосується як більшості, так і осіб з конкретними потребами. Одначе поточна типографіка стаціонарного і мобільного вигляду сайту ускладнює читомість. Крім цього, темна тема може бути помічною при слабкому освітленні і для користувачів, що віддають перевагу низькому контрасту при читанні. Наші інтерфейси наразі не мають такого функціоналу.

Ми холи б змінити стандартну типографіку. Також ми створимо додаткові параметри типографіки і темну тему, що будуть доступні у налаштуваннях. Ці зміни будуть доступні як для залогінених, так і для незалогінених користувачів.

Передумови
За минулі кілька років ми впровадили у багатьох вікі оформлення Вектор 2022. Ми розробили його для покращення досвіду читання. Іншою метою було забезпечити одночасно зручність для наявних користувачів і привітність для нових користувачів. Однак, ще залишаються проблеми з читомістю, які нам слід вирішити. During the research for that project, one of the issues we recognized was the size of the text itself.

Compared to the more accessible digital text, it takes longer to read our content on desktop and mobile. The ability to remember text that was read is also affected. An important factor to keep in mind is that people engage both in in-depth reading and scanning of text. We would like to improve our typography for both of these ways of using the projects.

Also, our desktop site does not allow to set a font size that is comfortable for the user. Instead, readers with specific needs and likings depend on browser functionality to alter the font size. These capabilities vary by browser and are not always supported by the rest of our user interface. This causes issues with tools or navigation.

Project overview
As part of the Accessibility for reading project, we will focus on two main initiatives:
 * 1) Improving the typography of the site and allowing users to choose their settings
 * 2) Introducing dark mode that users can opt-in to.

Typography improvements
The goals of this project are:
 * 1) To identify and better understand problems. Review and classify issues with the current typography on wikis
 * 2) To make the site easier to read. Improve readability on mobile and desktop sites
 * 3) To provide typography that better suits different languages and scripts. Optimize readability with the support and expertise of the different communities
 * 4) To allow readers to customize typography. Introducing typographical preferences, useful mostly for people with distinct needs and likings

Dark mode

 * 1) Improving the readability of articles in low-light settings
 * 2) Making dark mode options and settings easily discoverable and usable

Get involved and Contact



 * Promote and adjust the code on wiki, following our recommendations: to roll out our changes for logged-out users, community-controlled code, like templates, needs to be adjusted. It may need discussions on village pumps. It will also need many edits. Help us by starting such conversations and making such edits.
 * See the recommendations for dark mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis (currently under construction)


 * Report bugs: create a task in Phabricator and add project.
 * Translate: help us translate related pages:

Earlier research and explorations

 * Literature Review: Readability and Optimal Text Settings
 * Typography: Apply consistent font sizes across Vector 2022 (T313828)
 * Hypothesis: Typographical and palette customizations (T341631)
 * Typography: Increased font-size design for Vector 2022 (T254055)
 * Editors' feedback on the fifth Vector 2022 prototype testing
 * Decisions after the fifth Vector 2022 prototype testing

Project evaluation
We will measure the success of this project with qualitative and quantitative methods. In particular, we will be looking at:
 * Research-supported decisions in prototype creation and development
 * Qualitative improvements in readability based on user testing and community conversations
 * At least X% of all sessions longer than Ys who customize typography
 * Note: exact variables TBD
 * At least X% of all sessions use dark mode
 * No significant change in reading depth