Hi all, Many thanks to Sebastian from the DZB for his quick accessibility inspection.
I wanted to comment on two things. > 3) hidden (collapsed) menus use display:none. This makes them inaccessible to > screen readers, etc. Alternative ways for hiding them might be better - such > as setting the hight to 0. Has this been tried? I doubt this will be a reasonable solution. It is correct that hidden menus are display:none. The menu can be expanded, but this is not clear to the screen reader user as he wouldn’t suspect he can activate a heading. (If the heading would have an onclick event this would be indicated by the screen reader.) This problem can only be solved satisfactorily by using WAI-ARIA. > Also, would it be possible to detect at least the most popular screen reader > plugins with JS, so a special mode could be triggered for the visually > impaired? There is no such thing a a screen reader plugin, so you can’t detect them easily or reliable. They inject filters into browsers (BHO for IE) or make use of known accessibility interfaces. I thank everybody who is moving forward accessibility for Wikimedia projects. It is important to millions of users with disabilities worldwide. Cheers, Maria _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
