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On the WikiMedia Foundation level however, there is a strong need for an accessibility policy. MediaWiki itself should be accessible. But is should also conform to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) in order to enable users to create accessible content. The WMF should make it a priority and set up a plan to meet those goals.
The approach to make Wikipedia accessible is based on the W3C's official WCAG 2.0 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. The guidelines provided by this accessibility project are merely an attempt to reword the WCAG 2.0 into a guideline hopefully easier to understand for editors who are not familiar with accessibility or web development.
The VPAT was originally designed as a tool for vendors to document product compliance to Section 508 and facilitate government market research on ICT with accessible features. Many people started to call the completed document a "VPAT" but the wider procurement community would prefer to call it a product Accessibility Conformance Report, or ACR.
Universal design is the design of buildings, products or environments to make them accessible to people, regardless of age, disability, or other factors.It emerged as a rights-based, anti-discrimination measure, which seeks to create design for all abilities.
Before FAIR a 2007 paper was the earliest paper discussing similar ideas related to data accessibility. [4]At the 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit, the G20 leaders issued a statement endorsing the application of FAIR principles to research.
Guidelines on this page are ordered primarily by priority, then difficulty. The priority levels are determined by the Accessibility Success Criteria rankings A, AA, and AAA (in descending order of importance as accessibility considerations) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
For example, an image of Napoleon Bonaparte could be used in an article on great military leaders where it illustrates an example of such a leader—the alternative text should name the subject; an article on Napoleon illustrating what he looked like—the alternative text should briefly describe his appearance if it matters to the article;
MSAA was originally made available in April 1997 as part of the Microsoft Active Accessibility Software Developers Kit (SDK) version 1.0. The SDK packaged included documentation, programming libraries, sample source code, and a Re-Distributable Kit (RDK) for accessible technology vendors to include with their products.