I'd suggest that something be added in MediaWiki core's Special:Preferences for accessibility options. Color blind correction options could be one thing in there, as well as simple options like larger text, etc just to name some other accessibility options. It surely wouldn't hurt for that to be in core.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/09/2014 07:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Disclaimer: Though I worked in an accessibility software company for >> three years, I know almost nothing about color blindness, so this >> question may be silly. >> >> A participant in a recent workshop for new Wikipedia editors workshop in >> Israel complained that he cannot tell red links from blue links because >> he is color-blind. >> >> Has this issue ever been noticed or addressed by anybody? >> >> The only related thing I can think of is the option to show links to >> nonexistent pages with a question mark, which was disabled on Wikimedia >> sites a year or two ago. Is there anything else? >> > > Besides the hypothetical ideas mentioned, there is the option to add user > CSS. > > Although not truly user friendly, this is a little easier than it used to > be (you can now make personal customizations without copying them to every > WMF site). As long as you have a global account (many users do, including > most new ones), you just have to go to: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/global.css > > You can then add arbitrary CSS rules, e.g.: > > /* Red links */ > a.new { > color: pink; > } > > which will apply on all WMF sites (it is still possible to add rules that > only apply on one site at Special:MyPage/common.css (all skins) or > Special:MyPage/vector.css (Vector)). > > Matt Flaschen > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > -- *George Barnick*
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