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 carcharothwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you. To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTikUP7XWMf6Gqe1F+jB=Y4Qvub-PMXvT4Nb3b3Gm@mail.gmail.com 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
Would an automated category Images without alt text be feasible?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com 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 carcharothwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you. To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTikUP7XWMf6Gqe1F+jB=Y4Qvub-PMXvT4Nb3b3Gm@mail.gmail.com 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
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Dear Mr. Hoekstra,
Registered users may select "Preferences" in the top right toolbar, and then select "Appearance" and tick off "Simple" under "Skin". The "Simple" skin is designed for vision-impaired individuals, with its large font size and simpler lay-out.
Yours sincerly, PaoloNapolitano
2011/2/27 Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com
Would an automated category Images without alt text be feasible?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com 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 carcharothwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you. To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTikUP7XWMf6Gqe1F+jB=Y4Qvub-PMXvT4Nb3b3Gm@mail.gmail.com 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
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