Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-26402117-20181017200753

My proposal concerns the Languages template, that link box for articles that lists documentation i18n. I suspect that the template has a large number of accessibility issues:


 * Positioned within the content, away from other navigational elements
 * Overly prominent in mobile, with potentially obtrusive positioning across platforms
 * Presence of text separators - these can trip screen readers and don't offer good portability
 * High link density and lack of touch friendliness

Of course, removing it entirely would be a horrible option and wouldn't be nice to translators. I18n is a great thing for this wiki, and the goal should be to support it.

So my proposal is that we use a interwiki dropdown instead. Staff have set up an interlanguage map with KockaAdmiralac's help, which you can test on our mainpage. This system's totally compatible with the old one thanks to Kocka's work in Module:Languages.

We did float alternatives like the wiki using the infobox navigation tag (instead of the interwiki feature). But we thought this was best. Opinions for/against and alternatives are welcome. 