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Icon(s) to represent 'changed from/to'

I am building a table of locomotive classes, represented by 4-digit numbers. Some classes were renumbered. So if the Class 3100 locomotives were renumbered as Class 5100, there would be two items in the relevant boxes in the table:

• 3100 ( > 5100)
• (3100 > ) 5100

The first would indicate that the 3100 class later changed to 5100, the second that the 5100 class had previously been 3100. MOS says that I cannot use ASCII (eg '>') as an icon for accessibility reasons. How do I find an icon that says 'changed to' ? (And are the brackets a problem?)

--Verbarson (talk) 16:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

@Verbarson: Those symbols (including the parentheses) will be read out fine by screen readers; their meaning would be unclear without an explanation though. Graham87 07:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Graham87 Thanks. I will provide a legend to explain the structure of the information, and the meaning of the symbols. --Verbarson (talk) 09:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata proposal for alt text property

There is a suggestion at wikidata:Wikidata:Property proposal/alt text to allow adding alt text to Commons images using Wikidata. Users with accessibility knowledge may wish to provide feedback. the wub "?!" 20:59, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Font gimmicks

I've started a discussion about disallowing "font gimmicks" site-wide as part of the MOS at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Font gimmicks. I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Woodroar (talk) 00:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Accessibility of two video game list templates

Hi all, last night I added "caption" parameters to two templates that are often used for video game lists, {{Video game titles}} and {{Video game table}}. (Example lists: List of Blizzard Entertainment games for "titles", List of Mystery Dungeon video games for "table".) Another editor raised the point that the resulting output of these templates may be "layout tables" rather than "data tables" as per WP:DTAB, as while they have row and column relationships they also do some things with visual layout. If so, they should not get captions and are in fact contra-indicated altogether. Can anyone verify whether these template tables are actually parseable by screen readers, and if they should or should not get table captions? Thanks! --PresN 16:02, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@PresN: Thanks for that. They parse fine here ... and I think they are indeed data tables because they have a consistent number of columns that display data in a tabular format. Graham87 06:38, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

@Graham87: Thanks you! I'll carry on with using captions for them then. --PresN 13:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)