Hoi,
This was the conclusion of a previous investigation.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 January 2017 at 20:30, Marcos Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Milos,
>
> From my understanding, many blind and visually impaired people use
> hardware that automatically generates Braille text so they can read
> computer screens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Refreshable_braille_display (others may use screen reader/text to speech
> technology)
>
> I am doubtful that a server-side implementation of Braille conversion
> would actually serve much of a purpose for this reason.
>
> I do think it may be a worthwhile idea to communicate to organizations of
> the blind and visually impaired community to see if their accessibility
> needs are fully met by Wikimedia sites.
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2017 11:33 AM, "Milos Rancic" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Braille is one of the tangible symbol system, well adapted into the
> alphabetic environment. It is used by visually impaired persons.
>
> So, here are my notes:
>
> 1) It is possible to make a transliteration engine from an alphabet to
> Braille (not vice versa; but good enough for some purposes).
>
> 2) Visually impaired people could use different methods for writing:
> typewriting + acoustic feedback and they are doing that way. There is,
> of course, possibility to have a keyboard with Braille letters
> imprinted on them.
>
> 3) At this moment of time it could be imagined that touchscreen
> devices would be able to give tactile feedback. That's the main reason
> why Wikimedia projects should consider adding Braille as a writing
> system option for all of the languages that could be supported by
> Braille (and other tangible symbol systems for non-alphabetic writing
> systems). That's technical solution and if you are interested doing
> that, it could be a development project lead by WM CA, for example. (I
> could give you my input in relation to what's needed for the project
> to succeed.)
>
> In short, it could be implemented like any of the examples of
> multi-script [Wikimedia] languages. The basics are not complex at all
> (adding a file into MediaWiki and changing a config file; per
> language), but the implementation into the Wikimedia environment could
> be tricky, although I don't think that anyone would object to get a
> tab on, let's say, English Wikipedia with the options of choosing a
> writing system -- or having any other kind of more subtle option to
> choose if somebody is visually impaired or just prefers Braille.
>
> Keep in mind, however, that such thing would become realistic after
> the devices are able to give tactile feedback. And I think Apple Inc.
> or some other company would "invent" such things during the next
> couple of years.
>
> However, keep in mind that the specialized keyboards for Braille are
> already interpreting alphabets, so I suppose that even that tactile
> feedback from the future touchscreens would be likely interpreted into
> Braille on lower level than MediaWiki interface.
>
> However, again, we have keyboards for touchscreens and I suppose it
> could be implemented into MediaWiki, as well.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How to implement this writing system on the various languages then?
> >
> > Jean-Philippe Béland
> > Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
> > User:Amqui
> >
> >
> > Le ven. 20 janv. 2017 09:02, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >>
> >> I've rejected the request for Wikipedia Braille [1], as it's not a
> >> language, but a writing system used by various languages.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/
> Wikipedia_Braille
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