That's what browser preferences are for. NOT website preferences.
A lot of work has gone into technologies that allow browsers to display
the same page in different ways to allow the people with different
accessibility issues that conflict with each other to read the same
content.
The moment you're trying to do 'accessibility' by means of a preference
for your website, you are no longer doing accessibility. Accessibility is
not a site preference, it's a fact that applies to the user browsing the
entire Internet. Accessibility is not fixed if the user has to change a
preference at every single website they visit.
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:56:27 -0800, John Erling Blad <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
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