On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 01:26:51PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:44:11 -0500 > William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes I would benefit from this change, but it is not a case of optimizing > > for one. It is a case of opening up the use of the wiki to the largest > > audiance possible. This is just good universal design. > > Unfortunately, my experience with wiki's indicates that's not really an > option we have. > > There are lots of different formats, sure, but lots of those formats > reduce to being restrictive, declarative formats, where "content" is > stuffed into a range of formats predefined in the markups syntax. > > This ultimately ends up *restricting* the range of *visual* tools at > our disposal for distinguishing details on a case-by-case basis, by > forcing all details to adhere to a universally simplified scheme. > > While I do appreciate the difficulty presented to people with > sight-impairment, I'd opt primarily for choices that help them > *without* compromising the range of options we have for visual > distinguishers.
That's the whole point of the discussion. Have you even looked at gollum for example? it can support mw markdown. William
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