Last modified: 2014-08-14 22:12:15 UTC
Steps to reproduce the problem Start the Android browser Disable images Clear cache Navigate to https://en.wikipedia.org Type an article name in the search bar such as "piano" When the search results appear select "Piano" Problems: 1. Nothing appears to the viewer to indicate that it is possible to log in and edit the page, such as a text button that says "edit" in place of the arrow icons that would appear if images were enabled 2. The icon in the upper left corner that activates the left-hand slideout bar does not appear, so the user does not know that it is available unless the user clicks where the icon would be 3. The lack of text in place of icons might also affect accessibility for blind users who use screen readers
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/iWReoFnb
Confirmed on Chrome desktop. It's an enhancement in my view, there is no code for now to support non-image-loading setting if i'm right. (Removed mobile tag because thats MF product :))
The better way to disable images on mobile is to go into your settings and turn "Images" off. This will hide all article images, but still show user interface images. The interface still works for blind users because the text exists, it's just positioned off-screen (which I personally think is a bit hacky, but others disagree). I'm inclined to mark WONTFIX unless someone has a relatively simple fix for this (that doesn't interfere with accessibility).
We should, however, at least have title attributes on everything.
It looks like two of the page actions, 'add image' and 'add to watchlist', don't have any text at all (and thus aren't accessible).
