Hi Josh and iOS team and volunteers and Volker!
This is wonderful -- thank you for organizing and taking the time for this
work.
-Toby
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Joshua Minor <jminor(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Just a reminder that the Wikipedia accessibility
brownbag will be
*tomorrow* at 1:15 PDT. Join us either in person in the Chip Deubner
Lounge in SF, or via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE0PpQkBcI
I'll be giving a brief intro on the basics of accessibility for the
visually impaired, and the work the iOS team has been doing this week, and
Volker Eckl, Sr. UX Engineer from the WMF Editing team will talk about
efforts on OOjs UI for the web.
And huge thanks to the volunteers who showed up in Philly this weekend to
hack on the app with Corey, Joe and Austin (
https://twitter.com/wild37/
status/792485190924955648). We're working through your pull requests.
Thanks,
Josh
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Minor <jminor(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello,
We all know the vision: All the knowledge. Every single human being.
To achieve this, we need to support users across geographies and
languages, but also people with different physical abilities.
The iOS team, along with others at the foundation, are taking the next
week to focus on how we can make our app, and projects, easier for people
with visual impairments. We're working with an expert blind developer named
Austin Seraphin[1] to make sure we get it right, but we also need your help!
Check out our wiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Accessibility/2016_sprint
Some highlights of special events you can participate in over the next
week:
- *If you are in the Philadelphia area this Saturday *join engineers
from the WMF iOS team for an in person hack-a-thon to make the app more
accessible [2]
- Tune in one week from today, or join us in SF, for a *brownbag
about progress and challenges *of making OOjs UI and the iOS
Wikipedia app accessible [3]
- *Contribute code*, testing or comments for our accessibility tasks
for iOS[4], or across the projects[5]
If you're not able to join us this week, Corey from the iOS team has also
proposed a related session for the Tech Summit. Check it his proposal here
[6]
[1] Check his TedX talk on how mobile phones have enabled the blind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQOZRIA-nA
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility/2016_sprint
/Side_Project_Saturday
[3] Event is at 1:15 PST in the 5th floor common space, and will be
broadcast and archived on YouTube. Streaming link will be posted on the
wiki shortly. For staff, this event is on the Staff and Learning and Fun
calendars.
[4] Get started contributing by checking out our github:
https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios Our work will happen on this
phab board for the next release:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.
org/project/board/2281/
[5] There's no shortage of tasks for the web, apps and even internal
tools:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/accessibility/
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148435
Thanks,
Josh Minor
PM for Wikipedia app for iOS
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