Questions tagged [accessibility]
Questions that discuss the usability of Stack Exchange sites by people with disabilities.
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Default text color -- very bright light blue -- is very hard to read
I use high-quality monitors. I have older eyes. The default title and link colors on many stack sites -- very bright, light cyan (blue) -- is very very hard to read. I'd guess the contrast between ...
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Subheadings in the Code of Conduct should be HTML headings
In the Code of Conduct, the main headings are proper HTML headings: "Code of Conduct" is a <h1>, and "Our expectations for users" is a <h2>, along with other headings ...
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The "Questionnaire" heading for an election nomination should be an actual HTML heading, not a div, as it trips up screen readers
A candidate's answers to the election questionnaire (example election) appear under the "Questionnaire" section heading. Except it's not really a heading: it's a plain <div>.
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The text at the bottom of an election page should not be an <h2> as it trips up screen readers
The text at the bottom of an election page (example) is all an <h2>:
<h2>
This election is currently in the <a href="/election?tab=nomination">nomination</a> ...
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Transcribing the realm - podcast episode 834 has no transcript
I checked out a recent podcast to do with the community management team - and noticed that there's no transcript, only episode notes. Some folks don't do great with audio podcasts, or may wish to skim ...
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Can we make image description required?
We all know that adding an image to a post would give something like this [![Enter image description here][1]][1]. Most people will just press the ask question button without adding it, even though ...
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Headings on main profile page should be headings, not divs
Every single heading on the main profile landing page (my example) is a div with the fs-title class. That includes "About", "Badges", "Top Tags", "Top Posts", &...
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The "Reputation" and "Impact" headings on the profile summary tab should be <h3>, not <h1>
A user profile's "Activity" tab's default page is the "Summary". Along the top are three boxes: "Reputation", "Badges", and "Impact". Their underlying ...
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Headers within the profile page sidebar (settings & saves tabs) should be headers, not list items
The "Settings" tab within your profile has a sidebar with links to subpages organized into sections:
However, these "headers" aren't marked up as such in the underlying HTML. ...
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Tab indices on Q&A pages are messed up when using the Stacks Editor
When using the Stacks Editor, tab navigation on Q&A pages is messed up. Ex. the "post answer" button being the first thing that gets tabbed to on a new page load without clicking ...
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Use tag formatting on /help/whats-meta
At the bottom of What is "meta"? How does it work? is a section on required tags. It uses code formatting for these tags:
Because meta-discussion sites are different and serve multiple ...
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When editing a heavily downvoted answer, don't gray it while the user is editing it
Heavily downvoted answers are greyed out. When editing such an answer, don't keep it grey it while the user is editing it (example).
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Add dark mode to user interface [duplicate]
I've noticed that many users, including myself, prefer to use applications in dark mode, especially during nighttime to reduce eye strain. It would be great if the platform could support a dark mode ...
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Make sidebar links (e.g. "example newsletter") look different than plain text, as before
Links in sidebar boxes (e.g. "example newsletter" in "Love this site?" or "writing great tag wikis" in "What are Tag Wikis?") look exactly the same as the text ...
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Newsletter box's "Love this site?" header, and all edit help box headers, should be headers instead of divs
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The community digest/newsletter advertisement, which doesn't always appear, misuses the s-sidebarwidget--header class to imitate the appearance of a header without header markup. The "...
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