Would an automated category Images without alt text be feasible?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm all for disability access, but why specifically to Wikimedia as > opposed to The Internet or computing in general? > > There are some things that we could and in my view should be doing to > make our sites more open to people with disabilities. Colour schemes > in templates maps and so forth should be designed to give contrast > that works for various forms of colour blindness, and there are still > lots of images in wikipedia that need alt text for people using text > readers. > > WereSpielChequers >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:35:18 +0000 >> From: Carcharoth <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you. >> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> How about a pen that you can use to *edit* Wikipedia? No, wait, that >> takes longer than typing doesn't it? >> >> I'm waiting for the app that let's you edit Wikipedia just by >> *thinking* (or indeed any application that you can use just by >> thinking - some are sort of available already for paraplegics, but the >> technology is still in its infancy). >> >> http://www.technoscan.com/tracking.php?ID=15 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics >> >> None of those seem to cover eyeball movement technology. >> >> This does, but not the application to paraplegics: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking >> >> Here's an interesting page (and an interesting wiki site as well): >> >> http://abilitynet.wetpaint.com/page/Eye+Pointing >> >> The closest I could get to anything similar on Wikipedia was one line here: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology >> >> But I'm probably searching using the wrong terms. >> >> Carcharoth >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
