Talk:Wikimedia Accessibility User Group

A request to candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees election

Hello @ProtoplasmaKid, Waltercolor, Discott, GerardM, Fjmustak, Ravidreams, Pavan santhosh.s, AshLin, Raavimohantydelhi, Laurentius, Mike Peel, Rosiestep, Reda Kerbouche, Lionel Scheepmans, Adamw, Vini 175, Yasield, Victoria, and Pundit:. Thanks for being candidate at this 2021 Board of Trustees election.

Some of you are already aware of the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group, as you already joined our Telegram group. In any case, you might have a look at our Meta page to learn more on our group and its aim.

I wanted to know what each of you think about accessibility, at which level it is currently taken into account in our Wikimedia platforms, and what specific actions or guidelines you are attending to promote and defend regarding accessibility if you are elected on the board.

I understand that you might be already greatly solicited with other requests, so even a very brief answer would be very appreciated. If you do reply, please create a subsection with your own name or nickname bellow to hold it. Thank you very much for your attention, and possibly your answer. 🙏 --Psychoslave (talk) 19:29, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I think that accessibity is super important, as it is one of the barriers to participation that we can eliminate with technology. I do not feel competent to know which technology we can use. I know, however from our discussions on Telegram, that we're far from optimal. Even the elections page is poorly readable on phone, or parsed. I think it is the role of the WMF community's team to learn and gather feedback from groups such as Accessibility Group, to learn what would work best. If elected to the board, I will endorse such approach and discuss specific accessibility problems worth the team. Pundit (talk) 19:43, 19 August 2021 (UTC)