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Is PBWiki accessible by people with disabilities?
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Inappropriate?Hey Omyers,
This is a question I get fairly frequently and I'm proud to say that the PBwiki team attempts to make an accessible product for all our users.
We were recently alerted that our captcha forms have no audio verification to allow users an alternate to the text captcha. We now have this on our engineering roadmap for this year.
We try to make PBwiki as accessible as possible, however because PBwiki allows custom HTML, wiki users can quickly make a page inaccessible. It would be difficult for us to prevent or disallow users from making custom changes to their wiki. That means not all PBwikis are accessible for people with disabilities.
We are always open to suggestions on how we can increase the accessibility of our service- post here or email me personally if you have a suggestion (kristine-at-pbwiki.com).
Thanks!
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I fiddle around with a pbwiki site for my local chapter of the PA Council of the Blind and have had some trouble with the graphic blocker on the 'Contact Owner' feature. I've found a couple of work-arounds that pbwiki might be able to engineer in. One is an arithmetic question such as 2 + 4 = [ ] Enter answer. Another is a 'what's the missing piece' question such as What's missing? abdef [ ] Enter answer. (If you consider this one, please don't make it case-sensitive. That would defeat the whole purpose!!!)
http://pcb-clrfld-jeff.pbwiki.com/
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Inappropriate?Users are of course also free to make their wikis MORE accessible. One way is to define custom CSS with features like: larger fonts, more spaces between lines, bolder links, etc.
24ways.org has a short article on the topic of CSS and accessibility here: http://24ways.org/2007/css-for-access... -
Inappropriate?Hi,
I tried to use the
Contact The Wiki Owner
and appear to get the visual only captcha. There is a same page link if you cannot read the captcha text, but it does not seem to bring up an audio captcha.
As I posted in another thread, I also cannot figure out how to add a heading level 2 to a wiki using the Jaws screen reader:
http://hj.com/jaws
It appears this can be done either in a WYSIWYG editor or by adjusting the HTML source, but neither of these methods worked.
The wiki I am trying to edit is:
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com
and it looks to me like you need to create a heading level 2 in order to add a Twitter Pack to this wiki?
These issues should be resolved more quickly as they pose a critical priority 1 issue in terms of accessibility for content creaters.
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