Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Readability guidelines
Discussions
See this layout proposal. This layout used on the French Wikipedia was reviewed by an accessibility expert and another accessibility expert specialized in dyslexia.
Accessibility review of the French layout for discussions
The visual delimitations provided by blocks of text and lines have a major impact for users with dyslexia. Among the most commons cases are text justification, too much contrast and interline spacing within a paragraph. However, dyslexia is only one case among many others, mentioned here because it is the most evidently concerned. --Temesis
- First input received, about dyslexia - a sizable portion of our audience:
> Does this layout with its border and alternating background color makes reading easier from your point of view?
Without any hesitation, YES, and its a passionate outcry!
I'd even say it's like the difference between day and night. With the indentation alone I find myself quickly lost, I have a hard time to distinguish the different users posting, I have a hard time to see who is replying to who.
It requires more effort to read the text than to understand it's meaning. In small doses its manageable, bot tiredness comes quickly and there comes a time when I renounce.
- A simple complementary remark: discussions readability is considerably improved several contexts of the everyday users: when the user is traveling, with suboptimal means of consultation such as a Smartphone and Ipad. For example, it's the first time discussions on Wikipedia is decipherable in the train, to be very prosaic. --Temesis (d) 3 février 2010 à 14:45 (CET)
- Un autre retour, de portée plus générale:
L'indentation toute seule pour des threads ? L'ergonomie limitée par la technique il y a longtemps, tu connais evidement ? Je voyais ça oublié. C'est drôle de voir ça aujourd'hui sur un site comme wikipedia. Quand c'est évident qu'on peut faire beaucoup mieux (ton 2ème exemple)
- --Temesis (d) 3 février 2010 à 16:13 (CET)
- C'est ma réponse que Temesis cite dans son premier exemple. L'accessibilité des sites Web est mon domaine depuis des années et je suis dyslexique... j'ai donc cherché à comprendre pourquoi tant de sites me posaient des problèmes, quelles solutions pouvaient y remédier.
- Il est particulièrement important de guider le regard, et cela me ramène au sujet de cette discussion, les bordures qui délimitent clairement les différentes interventions.--Monique Brunel (d) 3 février 2010 à 19:56 (CET)