Talk:Technology Committee/Project requests/Review of accessibility

Discussion

Thank you Carol for preparing this. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 11:00, 9 April 2014 (BST)

Involving the community

Hi Carol. Thanks for posting this. I think this is jumping a necessary step, though. It would be much better to get in contact with Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility and the related committees (as was suggested on the talk page for Accessibility of the Wikimedia websites to get their views on what the issues are (both whether the ones you're worried about are solvable problems, and to ask for known other problems), and to seek their involvement in putting together the focus group that you suggest in liaison with other organisations. If you have the wider Wikimedia community (who have been working on this topic for years) involved in the process from the start, then you'll find gaining support to implement changes much easier in the long run. The same would go for involving those working on this sort of thing at the WMF (the group that recently redid the typeface on Wikipedia would be an obvious group to start with). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:18, 9 April 2014 (BST)