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A11Y (an acronym that stands for Accessibility - especially useful if you forget how to spell it). I still remember when Section 508 Guidelines were federally mandated way back in 1998<ref>In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to require federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities.</ref> On my bookshelf, I have a copy of Robert Yonaitis' book Understanding Accessibility from 2002 [[Special:BookSources/1-930616-03-1|ISBN:1-930616-03-1]] See the [https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/ A11Y checklist] for a generic reference providing a quick implementation of WCAG ==Accessibility in MediaWiki== *[https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/design-principles_accessibility.html Accessibility as a design principle] *[[mw:Accessibility guide for developers]] and *[[mw:Wikimedia Quality and Test Engineering Team/Playbooks/Accessibility]], *the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/accessibility/ Accessibility workboard in Phabricator] or the *[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/8NmpeEbYMSWm/#R full list of Open bugs and feature requests related to the accessibility in MediaWiki and other Wikimedia software] In the [[Codex]] Design system, the README states "Web accessibility compliant ('''Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 level AA''')" The project sources (docs) at [https://github.com/wikimedia/design-codex/blob/c7b3486b7fb1ec708390620e305efcc3225517dc/packages/codex-docs/docs/style-guide/accessibility.md packages/codex-docs/docs/style-guide/accessibility.md] gives greater detail on the goals, and accessibility focus of the project. There is a long-standing tradition of accessibility in WikiMedia projects, expressed in the [[:en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility Wikipedia's Manual of Style|wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility Wikipedia's Manual of Style]] (emphasis on Content Accessibility) [[mw:Accessibility guide for developers]] describes techniques, guidelines and some tools '''for developers'''. ==Tools== *https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wave-accessibility-tool/ *https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/axe-devtools/ *https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/accessibility_inspector/ Guidance boils down to "Open the WAVE extension or your [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_testing/Cross_browser_testing/Accessibility Firefox Accessibility Inspector] to confirm WCAG 2.1 level AA compliance". [[Category:Web Development]]

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