Decisions



I realise that I've made a number of decisions about the Accessify Wiki project recently in a uni-lateral manner. I think this was a mistake, so I'd like to try and get the community involved, to assess those past decisions, and to help make decisions in the future.

Who/ how to make collective decisions. And, retrospective decisions:

Hosting of fix-authoring/ repository/ Wiki environment

 * Choice of a wiki farm/ choice of Wikia - advantages:
 * Based on MediaWiki - PHP, well-known, customizable;
 * Someone else looks after hosting, upgrade support - Wikia;
 * Someone else looks after business model to fund good hardware/ service (that is, advertising);
 * Dis-advantages:
 * Advertising - distraction/ usability?
 * Advertising - may put people off?
 * Wikia corporate header/ footer etc. - distraction?

YAML fix format

 * Advantages of YAML:
 * human readability; compact/ lean syntax; machine readable; ease of transformation into other formats, eg. JSON;
 * Dis-advantages of YAML:
 * white-space indentation structure (like Python) as opposed to brace structure (like JSON), may be difficult for screen reader users. Proposed solution - provide JSON transformation in pop out window or similar.

Licenses

 * -- draft, http://accessify.wikia.com/wiki/License
 * Split license requirements into a) accessibility fixes, b) other software, c) documentation;
 * Accessibility fixes - are these software? I suggest they are as they can be packaged into a Javascript file etc. See the prototype system, https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/accessify-site/?url=http://baidu.com/
 * Access.. fixes - is MIT License appropriate?
 * Other software - is MIT License appropriate?
 * Documentation - CC-by-sa - as used by Wikia generally;
 * Careware/ charityware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careware

Tools hosting/ technologies
? ?
 * Choice of Google App Engine hosting/ Webapp2 framework/ Python language - advantages:
 * Dis-advantages:

Browser/ Assistive-tech. support

 * Which browsers should we support?
 * Which browser versions?
 * Proposal: MSIE 8+; Firefox 21+; Chrome ?; Safari ? -- see, http://caniuse.com/queryselector & http://caniuse.com/#feat=wai-aria
 * What assistive technology should we test with?
 * Anything else?
 * What platforms: Windows ?+; Mac OS X..?