Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Welcome to the Accessibility WikiProject!

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?

Details about the WikiProject 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.

The related and complementary WikiProjects are

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. BelovedFreak
  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. CrazyBuilder
  29. DarkArcherPrince
  30. Diana LaRose
  31. Dodoïste (talk)
  32. Domeditrix (talk · contribs)
  33. doorautomatica talk
  34. DotilasoFa 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.
  35. -- dsprc [talk]
  36. Eewilsontalk (tag or ping me!)
  37. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs)
  38. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}}
  39. Flounder ceo
  40. Funandtrvl (talk · contribs)
  41. 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.)
  42. GJR, a.k.a. oedipus (GJR's talk page | GJR's contributions)
  43. Graham87
  44. Héron du fleuve (talk · contribs)
  45. HouseBlastertalk
  46. HueAskew (Talk)
  47. Rahul Pandey
  48. 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
  49. Jack345110 - 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.
  50. Jidanni
  51. User:John Carter
  52. Jomanila
  53. -- Daniel Jones (talk)
  54. Jonathan Bowen
  55. KaraLG84Talk Page
  56. l'aquatique[talk]
  57. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me
  58. Macadamia14
  59. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk)
  60. matthewcock
  61. MatthewUtzig Reworking technical articles to make them easier to understand. Trying to add metadata to dates to make them more accessible.
  62. Max Viwe | Viwe The Max
  63. MeekMark (talk · contribs)
  64. Mgifford
  65. Mooeena
  66. Mr. Yondris Ferguson (Leave a Comment)
  67. MxSch (talk) Autistic pedant keen on alt text and Disabled perspectives being central to any and all articles involving disabilities.
  68. Neranei (talk)
  69. user:orngjce223 how am I typing?
  70. OwenBlacker
  71. Patient Zerotalk
  72. The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk)
  73. —PC-XT+
  74. User:Pedant
  75. -- penubag  (talk)
  76. Phorestry (talk) - I put {{lang}} 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.
  77. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett
  78. pjoef (talkcontribs)
  79. Pretended leer
  80. Purplewowies
  81. Quiddity
  82. RexxS (talk)
  83. Significa liberdade
  84. SFB
  85. small jars tc - 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.
  86. Smartyllama
  87. SomeoneDreaming
  88. Spencergreenwood (talk)
  89. 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.
  90. surueña
  91. Techdude3331
  92. the wub "?!"
  93. TheAwesomeHwyh
  94. Thisisnotatest (Thisisnotatest's talk page)
  95. tombabinszki
  96. 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.
  97. WikiMacaroons (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  98. Winxrocker
  99. xeno (talk)
  100. Zend2020 Accessibility for people living with Disabilities PLWD particularly visually impaired and blind people

You may place {{User WikiProject Accessibility}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This template will add your user page to:

Templates

Templates for pages with accessibility issues

Template Description
{{Accessibility dispute}}, for use on articles where the accessibility is in question. See Category:Articles with accessibility problems.
{{Cleanup colors}}, for use on articles or sections that use colour as the only way of conveying important information. See Category:Wikipedia articles with colour accessibility problems.
{{Overcolored}}, for use on articles or sections that overuse colour as a way of conveying important information. See Category:Wikipedia articles with colour accessibility problems.
[no visible template] {{Alternative text missing}}, for articles with images without alt text, if adding it would improve accessibility.

Templates for pages about accessibility

Template Description
WikiProject iconAccessibility
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Accessibility, a group of editors promoting better access for disabled or otherwise disadvantaged users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page.
{{WikiProject Accessibility}}, for use on article talk pages for articles within the project. See Category:WikiProject Accessibility articles.
{{User WikiProject Accessibility}}, userbox for members of the accessibility project. See Category:WikiProject Accessibility participants.
Accessibility barnstar The Accessibility Barnstar
Message here
{{subst:Accessibility Barnstar|message ~~~~}}, used to recognize contributions to the project or improvements to accessibility on Wikipedia.

Userboxes

Userboxes about disabilities
Disability Userboxes Wikipedians
Asperger syndrome {{User Asperger}} Links
{{User aspie}} Links
High-functioning autism {{User HFA}} Links
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder {{User ADD2}} Links
{{User ADHD}} Links
{{User ADD}} Links
{{User ADHD2}} Links
Bipolar disorder {{User bipolar}} Links
{{User bipolar2}} Links
Blindness {{User blind}} Links
Borderline personality disorder {{User borderline}} Links
Cataplexy {{User cataplexy}} Links
Color blindness {{User Colourblind}} Links
Dyslexia {{User dyslexic}} Links
{{User Lysdexic}} Links
Developmental coordination disorder {{User dyspraxic}} Links
{{User Developmental Dyspraxia}} Links
Dissociative identity disorder {{User Multiplepersondis}} Links
{{User did}} Links
Dysthymia {{User dysthymia}} Links
Hearing loss {{User Deaf}} Links
Narcolepsy {{User narcolepsy}} Links
Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified {{User PDD-NOS}} Links
Psychosis / Schizophrenia {{User psychosis}} Links
{{User Schizoid}} Links
{{User SAD}} Links
{{User SZA}} Links
{{User SZD}} Links
{{User schizophrenia}} Links
{{User schizotypal}} Links

See also

External watchlist