You can not design for one size fits all when it comes to accessibility, its simply not possible.
John On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > Accessibility should not be a user preference. > > I also do not like the idea of site specific text size change widgets: > http://webaim.org/blog/web-accessibility-preferences-are-for-sissies/ > > If you want, I can even dig up the full discussion I had with CCA that ended > in them dropping the text resize widget from their wiki's design ;). > > > On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:19:48 -0800, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What about adding a couple of style markers on the body tag? For >> example classes for "high-contrast", "avoid-red-green", >> "avoid-green-blue", "avoid-red-yellow"... or? >> >> Or perhaps as additional styles stright from the mediawiki-space, that >> way the accessability issues can be crowdsourced? >> >> There was also a question about scaling of content text on OTRS some >> time ago. I'm not quite sure but I think the idea was to use an other >> font in the content as he had to read that, while all the other text >> from the portlets he learned over time so if that text was difficult >> to read it didn't do so much. >> >> The text size proposal was to add simple scaling buttons to step up >> the text, and I would propose to store the set size in local storage. >> The same applies to color I believe, as it should be possible to >> change it without logging in. >> >> At nowp there is a link in the sidebar to a page describing how >> visually impaired can chage skin. It uses the simpleskin >> >> http://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Svaksynte&useskin=simple >> >> John >> >> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum >>> >>> >>> On 3/1/12 1:43 PM, David Gerard wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1 March 2012 21:38, Trevor Parscal<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Screenshot of new diff styles: >>>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=10148 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I gotta ask - where's the lorem ipsum from? >>>> >>>> >>>> - d. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
