On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Carcharoth
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > While we are on the Foundation and legal stuff, can someone tell me
> whether
> > as a US-based 501(c)(3) organization there is any legal requirement for
> > Wikipedia, as a website, to meet certain minimum accessibility
> requirements?
>
> None as a result of being a 501(c)(3).  (If Wikimedia were a
> government agency OTOH...)
>
> Never the less, it's obviously desirable to be as accessible as
> possible:  I can't think of any reason why any material accessibility
> problems wouldn't be given a fairly high priority. Not only is
> accessibility good on its own merits but accessible development
> usually supports other things we consider good (such as broad client
> compatibility and machine readability).


Thanks. We have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility

But I wonder how much of that is really followed.

Should start a new thread, really.

Carcharoth
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