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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 ?? early 2000? I have a promotional copy of Robert Yonaitis' book Understanding Accessibility from 2002 [[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".
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