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 written in the Latin alphabet, and it is supposed to be more
comfortable to read for dyslexic people. So it can be considered and
accessibility tool, but I don't think that it is relevant for
visually-impaired people.
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2014/1/15 Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That
would help :)
On 15 January 2014 08:50, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)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 the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia. There are multiple
ways functionality can be provided who have a visual handicap. The size
of
the characters can be increased, the colour
scheme can be changed (some
people only see yellow on white..)
If there is one thing wrong with the ULS, it is not in the functionality
but by the utter lack of visibility. ULS is a major component of
MediaWiki
and it is not given prominence, Truly how are
people going to find
OpenDyslexic... (we are talking about 7 to 10% of a population)...
Work is done to get more support for webfonts on mobile phones.. It is
being developed.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 January 2014 09:26, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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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