Last modified: 2014-03-07 14:46:28 UTC
Accessibility for the colour-blind Commons has a lot of graphs and charts used on Wikipedia and elsewhere, but few consider how they look with colour blindness, mostly because the creator/uploader has no idea. m:Accessibility#Colour-blind-friendly images lists some tools that can be used to automatically transform images into how they are seen by colour blind people. We could run such automated tools on all Commons graphs and charts and reporting the results, ideally after assessing automatically in some way that the resulting images are not discernible enough, lower than some score. The warnings can be relayed with some template on the file description or directly to the authors and can havhe a huge impact on the usefulness of Commons media. Depending on skills and time constraint, the project taker would do 1, 1-2 or 1-3 of these three steps: 1) develop the code for such an automatic analysis based on free software, 2) identify what are the images to check on the whole Commons dataset and run the analysis on it producing raw results, 3) publish such results on Commons via bot in a way that authors/users can notice and act upon. Nemo bis added this. URL:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Accessibility_for_the_colour-blind
This proposal has been listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects and we are filing a report to gather community feedback and share updates.
