Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility

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For the guideline, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility. For the project on general usability, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability.

Welcome to the Accessibility WikiProject!

This project aims to make Wikipedia accessible for users with disabilities. More specifically, accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with Wikipedia, and that they can contribute to Wikipedia. Accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.

See also: What is accessibility?

Details about the WikiProject Accessibility

Scope

The primary focus is on improving the accessibility of articles. The secondary focus is on actively assisting editors with disabilities or other characteristics which inhibit their ability to contribute to the encyclopedia.

Methodology

The approach to make Wikipedia accessible is based on the W3C's official WCAG 2.0 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. The guidelines provided by this accessibility project are merely an attempt to reword the WCAG 2.0 into a guideline hopefully easier to understand for editors who are not familiar with accessibility or web development.

Related WikiProjects

The related and complementary WikiProjects are

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (related to alt text)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability
• Wikipedia:Call a Wikipedian

Participants

There is a bot automatically generated list of active editors.

If you are interested in being part of this group, please add your name to the following list; it is ordered alphabetically.

1. 47thPennVols (talk)
2. A Highway Got Paved Over My Future, I Drive It Getting to School is dedicated to adding alt text to album covers.
3. A Lambent Eye (Talk) is new to Wikipedia and eager to help.
4. a11ygeorge (talk) would like to help update and expand information on international web accessibility laws
5. Adrian M. H.
6. AimeeMaree
7. Akjar13
8. Annettet
9. AquitaneHungerForce (talk)
10. Ashertheaxolotl I am a disabled Wikipedian with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and hyperacusis. I would like to contribute to making this site more accessible for people with disabilities!
11. AtomsOrSystems (talk)
12. Axciom (Talk)
13. B2project
14. Bauani
15. BelovedFreak
16. Blue Pumpkin Pie
17. BlueboyLINY
18. Bsherr (talk)
19. ~ Rob^Talk
20. Caleb Bond
21. cannona
22. ♫CheChe♫ talk
23. Checkingfax
24. Chlod (say hi!)
25. User:CircleGirl
26. CM2G0005
27. Contrawwftw
28. CrazyBuilder. This season, I am mostly adding captions to data tables to benefit screen reader users. I am also replacing inappropriate table markup with a description list (or whatever is more appropriate).
29. DarkArcherPrince
30. Diana LaRose
31. Dodoïste (talk)
32. Domeditrix (talk · contribs)
33. doorautomatica talk
34. DotilasoFa Mi Re Do! Di Ri Fi Si Li Te Le Se Me Ra! is an autistic Wikipedian who can help with color schemes and color-related issues.
35. -- dsprc ^[talk]
36. Eewilson – talk (tag or ping me!)
37. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs)
38. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}}
39. Flounder ceo
40. Funandtrvl (talk · contribs)
41. Geekdiva (talk) (Ironically, my disability will prevent me from being very active. Heh! But I appreciate everyone's hard work and will do what I can when I can.)
42. GJR, a.k.a. oedipus (GJR's talk page | GJR's contributions)
43. Graham87
44. Héron du fleuve (talk · contribs)
45. HouseBlaster^talk
46. HueAskew (Talk)
47. Rahul Pandey
48. user:irtapil - My favourite parts of Wikipedia are the tables. These are what i find easiest to understand, due to my own combination of strengths and struggles, and i expect i am not alone in this. But i know tables can cause accessibility problems for some readers, so i'm keen to help optimise them. User_talk:irtapil
49. Jack345110 - I have ADHD, Dyslexia and traits of autism so I find it hard to focus on something sometimes especially if I get bored of it.
50. Jidanni
51. User:John Carter
52. Jomanila
53. -- Daniel Jones (talk)
54. Jonathan Bowen
55. KaraLG84Talk Page
56. l'aquatique[talk]
57. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me
58. Macadamia14
59. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk)
60. matthewcock
61. Max Viwe | Viwe The Max
62. MeekMark (talk · contribs)
63. Mgifford
64. Mooeena
65. Mr. Yondris Ferguson (Leave a Comment)
66. MxSch (talk) Autistic pedant keen on alt text and Disabled perspectives being central to any and all articles involving disabilities.
67. Neranei (talk)
68. user:orngjce223 how am I typing?
69. OwenBlacker
70. Patient Zero^talk
71. The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk)
72. —PC-XT+
73. User:Pedant
74. -- penubag  (talk)
75. Phorestry (talk) - I put {{lang}} tags to foreign language texts because it provides better accessibility and other benefits. I also have some experience transcribing online image posts into text, so I can help providing alt text to images that need them.
76. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett
77. pjoef (talk • contribs)
78. Pretended leer
79. Purplewowies
80. Quiddity
81. RexxS (talk)
82. Significa liberdade
83. SFB
84. small jars tc - Interested in refactoring table based layouts in templates for mobile and large-font-size responsivity, and maintaining language tags for screen readers. I've suffered mild dyslexia and a slow reading speed since my childhood, so I'm sympathetic to people suffering from accessibility issues on wp.
85. Smartyllama
86. SomeoneDreaming
87. Spencergreenwood (talk)
88. SunnySydeRamsay (talk) IT Accessibility technician/web content developer at a major American research university with certifications in document accessibility and professional experience in WCAG AA compliance, functional accessibility testing, and providing consultations to people new to IT accessibility.
89. surueña
90. Techdude3331
91. the wub "?!"
92. TheAwesomeHwyh
93. Thisisnotatest (Thisisnotatest's talk page)
94. tombabinszki
95. Tom Cloyd (talk) - Interested in mental-health-related accessibility issues - certainly an orphan area. We haven't a lot of external guidance to draw upon. A problem.
96. WikiMacaroons (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
97. Winxrocker
98. –xeno (talk)
99. Zend2020 Accessibility for people living with Disabilities PLWD particularly visually impaired and blind people

You may place {{User WikiProject Accessibility}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Accessibility.

This template will add your user page to:

• Category:WikiProject Accessibility participants

Templates

Templates for pages with accessibility issues

Template	Description
	{{Accessibility dispute}}, for use on articles where the accessibility is in question. See Category:Articles with accessibility problems.
	{{Cleanup colors}}, for use on articles or sections that use colour as the only way of conveying important information. See Category:Wikipedia pages with colour accessibility problems.
	{{Overcolored}}, for use on articles or sections that overuse colour as a way of conveying important information. See Category:Wikipedia pages with colour accessibility problems.
[no visible template]	{{Alternative text missing}}, for articles with images without alt text, if adding it would improve accessibility.

Templates for pages about accessibility

Template	Description
	{{WikiProject Accessibility}}, for use on article talk pages for articles within the project. See Category:WikiProject Accessibility articles.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Accessibility.	{{User WikiProject Accessibility}}, userbox for members of the accessibility project. See Category:WikiProject Accessibility participants.
The Accessibility Barnstar Message here	{{subst:Accessibility Barnstar|message ~~~~}}, used to recognize contributions to the project or improvements to accessibility on Wikipedia.

Userboxes

Userboxes about disabilities

Disability	Userboxes	Wikipedians
Asperger syndrome	{{User Asperger}}	Links
	{{User aspie}}	Links
High-functioning autism	{{User HFA}}	Links
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	{{User ADD2}}	Links
	{{User ADHD}}	Links
	{{User ADD}}	Links
	{{User ADHD2}}	Links
Bipolar disorder	{{User bipolar}}	Links
	{{User bipolar2}}	Links
Blindness	{{User blind}}	Links
Borderline personality disorder	{{User borderline}}	Links
Cataplexy	{{User cataplexy}}	Links
Color blindness	{{User Colourblind}}	Links
Dyslexia	{{User dyslexic}}	Links
	{{User Lysdexic}}	Links
Developmental coordination disorder	{{User dyspraxic}}	Links
	{{User Developmental Dyspraxia}}	Links
Dissociative identity disorder	{{User Multiplepersondis}}	Links
	{{User did}}	Links
Dysthymia	{{User dysthymia}}	Links
Hearing loss	{{User Deaf}}	Links
Narcolepsy	{{User narcolepsy}}	Links
Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified	{{User PDD-NOS}}	Links
Psychosis / Schizophrenia	{{User psychosis}}	Links
	{{User Schizoid}}	Links
	{{User SAD}}	Links
	{{User SZA}}	Links
	{{User SZD}}	Links
	{{User schizophrenia}}	Links
	{{User schizotypal}}	Links

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
• Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts
• MediaWiki accessibility bug list
• Category:Wikipedia accessibility and Category:WikiProject Accessibility (almost a duplicate: their organization needs to be improved)
• meta:Accessibility
• mw:Accessibility
• mw:Accessibility guide for developers

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Accessibility