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Contents 1 My proposals 1.1 Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Image accessibility 1.1.1 Colourblind accessibility 1.1.2 Temporal accessibility of slideshows

[edit] My proposals

[edit] Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Image accessibility

[edit] Colourblind accessibility

Avoid colour coded images and maps. Orange-yellow-green coded maps are especially common on Wikipedia, but are completely unusable by 5% of the visitors.

The best practice is to use pattern-coding instead. The existing images should be easy to convert.

[edit] Temporal accessibility of slideshows

Avoid fixed delay in slideshows. People might want to stop at a certain point to examine a slide in greater detail, for example. Currently fixed-delay animated GIF slideshows are very common on Wikipedia.

Create pausable slideshows instead. AJAX slideshows are one possibility using open standards. The existing animated GIFs should be easy to convert.

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