Accessibility Angels Technology Advisors Team

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Accessibility Angels Project | Technology Advisors Team

Accessibility Angels Technology Advisors Team

Leaders: Julie Ricketts, David Selman and Ian Speed

Coordinator: Vacant

Team Leader: Susie Officer

Team Members:

• Peter Tesar
• Ian Speed
• Damien Garwood

The team's role is to liaise with the Wikitree community to ensure WikiTree is usable by as many people as possible, including people who use screen readers and other assistive technology. This includes:

• evaluating the accessibility of WikiTree's user interface and in, and
• developing proposals to enhance WikiTree's accessibility and liaising with WikiTree's tech community about their implementation.

It is a multi-skilled team open to people who:

• can help test WikiTree's webpages and give feedback on how easy they are to navigate, read and edit,
• are familiar with screen readers or other assistive technology, or
• have technical expertise in making websites more accessible to people with disabilities.

Resources and Tools

• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tools – a suite of tools for evaluating the accessibility of webpages. It includes browser extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox for checking password protected pages and dynamic page content.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) – the main standard for web content accessibility. The WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

Accessibility Angels Project Pages

Project: Accessibility Angels

Accessibility Angels Guides Team

Accessiblity Angels Research and Transcription Team

Accessibility Angels Sandbox