Accessibility/sco

MediaWiki accessibeelitie is the goal o makin MediaWiki steids easier tae navegate n read. While this is primarilie intendit tae asseest thae wi disabeelities, it can be heelpfu til aw readers.

Fawk n organisations wairkin oan MediaWiki accessibeelitie

 * "Access fer aw" (Swiss foundation for ICT-Accessibility); ae step-bi-step accessibeelitie analisees accordin til the Wab Accessibeelitie Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 publeeshed bil the W3C: http://www.thirdageonline.eu/project-tao-2/software-development/mediawiki-accessibility-enhancements/
 * This analisees wis accompleeshed aes ae pairt o the "Third Age Online" (TAO) AAL waurk in collaboration wi Kai Nissen o WMDE
 * Maost o the mentioned issues ar either featur enhancemants or theme sib, while some needs can yinlie be met bi settin up or redefinin the eeditin guidelines.
 * Lucia Greco, aen asseesteeve technologies specialist at UC Berkeley
 * Sami Mubarak fae http://mada.org.qa/en/ - the non-profit Qatar Assistive Technology Center - wairks oon the accessibeelitie o MediaWiki fer the blind (in Arabee)
 * Katie Filbert, o the Wikimedia DC chaipter, is interested in accessibeelitie efforts n heelpt tae rin aen accessibeelitie hackathon: http://www.wikimediadc.org/wiki/Accessibility_hackathon
 * Andrea Zanni is o the Wikimedia Italie chaipter. Wikimedia Italie is investin in saffware deveelopmant tae impruiv Wikisource usabeelitie n accessibeelitie fer new uisers.
 * Adi Kushnir heelpt tae lead aen accessibeelitie session at Wikimania 2011, durin the deveeliper days, taukin ower whit needs fixin.
 * Wikimedia France is interested in wairkin oan Wikimedia accessibeelitie, tae cræft aen audit o the situation the nou n ae roadmap fer futur wairk.
 * Jopparn, wha haunit in aen accessibeelitie waur aes ae Wikimedia fellowship idea.
 * the WikiWaurk Accessibeelitie pairteecipants - oan ither wikis ava?
 * Maria Schiewe, Danny B. n Rodan Bury had aen Accessibeelitie Presentation n Wairkshop at Wikimania 2010.
 * Danny B. n Maria Schiewe stairtit the Accessibeelitie ineetiateeve.
 * Mark Holmquist is aen employee o the WMF wha's uissuallie willin tae heelp wi accessibeelitie issues.
 * Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj), ae saffware deveeliper wairkin oan the Accessibeelitie guide fer deveelipers.
 * Hoo man (Marius Hoch) is wairkin wi the WMDE tae fix a11y bugs in the simmer o 2013.
 * Wikimedia Sverige is developing a MediaWiki extension called Wikispeech, a text-to-speech solution aimed at increasing accessibility of Wikipedia's articles. Please contact me if you would like to be involved.
 * Volker E. is working for Wikimedia Foundation and has been focusing on accessible interfaces to be provided across all Foundation products.

Accessibility bugs in MediaWiki and related projects

 * All bugs tagged with "accessibility" keyword