Hello Gerard, while I totally agree with you about the usability part, what I want to say in my last mail is that there is no need for put the US government into your argumentation for it.
Greetings Ting On 20.02.2011 11:55, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The United States government uses MediaWiki in several places. When you > consider that most of the money donated to the Wikimedia Foundation is given > by Americans and, when you consider that complying with a standard for > usability is something that is a strategic goal, I do understand your pov > but I do not agree. > > What we can do is check out to what extend we already comply. Given that we > have several visually impaired editors even admins, the quality of our > software is not that bad. Understanding what needs to be improved to comply > with a standard like VPAT gives us a measurable goal to realise what is a > strategic goal. > > By inviting the American government to work with us on this, we may even > find that given that MediaWiki is Open Source / Free Software the government > will do the testing for us. > > All in all, I advocate to use the question "to what extend does MediaWiki > comply with VPAT" as an opportunity. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 20 February 2011 08:51, Ting Chen<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Since we are not funded by the government and we have no relation what >> so ever with the US government I don't see what VPAT has any relevance >> to us. If the US government think MediaWiki doesn't fulfill the >> condition, they had to use another wiki engine I am afraid. >> >> Greetings >> Ting >> >> On 16.02.2011 19:49, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >>> Hoi, >>> Given that Unites States government agencies do use MediaWiki, it is >> quite a >>> relevant question. Given that we provide such an important service on a >>> worldwide scale, I would be interested in learning the answer to the >>> question. Is that possible ? >>> >>> In the final analysis we can only achieve our aims well when we achieve >>> highly in this respect. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 16 February 2011 19:43, Nathan<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hoi, >>>>> What IS a VPAT for 508 in the first place ? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Gerard >>>> See: http://www.section508.gov/ >>>> >>>> Refers to a plan for compliance with a regulation designed to force >>>> federally funded software products/services to be accessible for >>>> people with disabilities. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> foundation-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> -- >> Ting >> >> Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
