Hi, would anybody of you have some starting points concerning wikipedia for
visually impaired persons, both computer and mobile devices?
Rupert
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Hi Rupert,
Wikimedia UK is currently looking at this in relation to our own wiki.
There's some thoughts and notes at
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Accessibility_of_the_Wikimedia_UK_website which
draw extensively from information provided by the Royal National Institute
of Blind People -
Hoi,
One obvious point to start is the functionality of the ULS. It already
serves one function for people who have a handicap with their perception.
It has the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia. There are multiple
ways functionality can be provided who have a visual handicap. The size of
How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That would help :)
On 15 January 2014 08:50, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
One obvious point to start is the functionality of the ULS. It already
serves one function for people who have a handicap with their perception.
It has
ULS is short for the Universal Language Selector extension. This tool
provides language selection, webfonts and keyboard layouts for different
languages. It appears if you click the gear icon near the interlanguage
links. Among other things, it provides the OpenDyslexic font for some
languages
WOW on toast! Thanks Amir.
On 15 January 2014 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote:
ULS is short for the Universal Language Selector extension. This tool
provides language selection, webfonts and keyboard layouts for different
languages. It appears if you click the gear
rupert THURNER, 15/01/2014 09:26:
Hi, would anybody of you have some starting points concerning wikipedia for
visually impaired persons, both computer and mobile devices?
WMDE is working on this (mainly Hoo with help by TheDJ), building on
recommendations compiled by WMCH.
Main coordination
Hoi,
What the ULS is.. the universal language selector is started with this
little round thingie next to the interwiki links. The fact that it is not
even known in this crowd is indicative how little this functionality is
known and how few people will find usability tools.
One thing we need to
Hoi,
How is dyslexia anything BUT a visual impairment ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 January 2014 10:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote:
ULS is short for the Universal Language Selector extension. This tool
provides language selection, webfonts and keyboard layouts for
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
How is dyslexia anything BUT a visual impairment ?
Thanks,
GerardM
Dyslexia can also has some serious auditory symptoms (processing speed,
auditory memory, verbal comprehension, voice recognition..
Hoi,
I am totally with you. However we can only help where we can. Providing the
font and make it accessible is one way.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 January 2014 11:18, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Can WMUK collaborate with WMDE (and others) on this to push it forward?
Obviously a lot of good work has already been done, but perhaps it now needs
some long term commitment and leadership to ensure that what has been done is
made easily accessible, and to work on filling gaps in
Hoi,
I am talking with the Polish chapter to extend the functionality of the
OpenDyslexic font ... I am waiting for their GO/NOGO.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 January 2014 12:08, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:
Can WMUK collaborate with WMDE (and others) on this to push it forward?
Yes, indeed.
Collaborating to get a well advertised clearing centre running would be a very
good first step. But to get over the usual issue that nobody in the community
comes forward to point out where the gaps are (which may not be surprising as
the people we want to contact here are by
Hello everybody,
I have just posted an extensive feedback from WMDE on the FDC process here
on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Comments/Extensive_feedback_from_WMDE_to_the_FDC_process
The statement was drafted by WMDE's Supervisory Board and myself.
We are very much
Thank you Pavel and WMDE board, this is indeed a great constructive
feedback and I strongly agree with most of the your arguments and concerns.
Itzik
WMIL
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Pavel Richter
pavel.rich...@wikimedia.dewrote:
Hello everybody,
I have just posted an extensive
thanks indeed! I agree with many of the comments (and yes, I don't like
bureaucracy neither, I also am very much in favor of moving towards a
collaborative and trusting process, although the way you phrased it sounds
as if you've assumed we, at the FDC, are against it :)
I think that beyond
On 1/15/2014 8:13 AM, Victor Grigas wrote:
I interviewed 2 gentlemen who are both blind who use a program called JAWS on
desktop machines that reads the Wikipedia page to them, allowing them to edit.
In the US, I believe JAWS is the predominant tool employed to assist
blind computer users. At
Thanks to WMDE for the thoughtful and very interesting feedback to the FDC.
As an observer but not a participant, I found it very helpful in organizing
and restating the criticism we've all read about the FDC process. The
statement is highly constructive, and I understand why it doesn't get into
The Wikimedia Foundation's legal team recently authored a guest blog post
for EFF's Copyright Week [1] about how Wikipedia relies on the public
domain (post is also copied below):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/wikipedia-shows-value-vibrant-public-domain
The legal team invited the advocacy
Marc,
It isn't just the vandalism and reversion of vandalism that we've lost as a
result of the edit filters (originally known as abuse filters) there is
also the lost userpage warnings, AIV reports, block messages and removal of
AIV reports:) But yes the majority would have been vandalism and
Actually, yes, we do; Aaron Halfaker did a lot of work quantifying and
defining 'man-hours' in a Wikipedia sense.
On 15 January 2014 10:15, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote:
Marc,
It isn't just the vandalism and reversion of vandalism that we've lost as a
result of the
On 01/15/2014 01:15 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Of course there remains the issue that our audience is still growing faster
than the Internet whilst nobody really knows whether the underlying rate
of goodfaith editing is increasing or stable.
My own eyeball metric on this is entirely
Thanks Pavel for sharing this.
I think a bigger conversation will be on-going on Meta and in general on
where to continue it in the real world. It might be useful to keep in mind
that the movement has already invested and committed to bringing all
chapters (and possibly thorgs) to the Wikimedia
hi Bence,
I think that a discussion about the movement sources should be more open to
people from outside of chapters, too and their input may nevertheless be
valuable. Also, my wild guess is that Wikimania will attract many more
activists of the movement than the chapter conference anyway
Those are all concerns I understand, and i am not in the mood to argue this
to win. Either result would be fine with me after a well considered
decision.
i merely put forward considerations of people (should all possible funded
entities be present - they are not guaranteed presence at one of the
Stop
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Hi Pavel,
Thanks very much for the thoughtful feedback from WMDE on the FDC. We
certainly want to be (and hope we are) wiki in nature: a work in progress,
with continued room for improvement. So I think the FDC, the FDC Advisory
Group (of which you are a member, of course), the Board and the
(please excuse cross-posting)
Hi everyone!
I posted the latest in the string of program evaluation reports on Meta
today, on GLAM content donations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/GLAM_content_donations
Highlights of the report include:
* Program leaders who
Greetings!
The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team (1) seeks your guidance on a
proposal to support the MP4 video format. As you know, this digital video
standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on
mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It
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I think you should probably include a reason why you feel this way. A
one-word answer doesn’t leave room for conversation.
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