On the English Wikipedia, Graham Pearce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87) is unfailingly helpful. He is an admin who is very familiar with the problems for visually-impaired users as he has been blind since birth and uses the JAWS screen reader to edit Wikipedia. I'm sure he won't mind me mentioning how valuable he is when testing possible solutions to problems.

-- 
Doug



On 15 January 2014 13:57, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <srik.ramk@wikimedia.in> wrote:
Some of you may not now but there is one Visually impaired editor on the Hindi Wikipedia by the name Anirudha, perhaps it would be useful to get in touch with him and get more feedback.



On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
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 <michael@maggs.name> wrote:

> 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
> functionality (covering all aspects of disability).
>
> Michael
>
> WMUK Chair
>
> > On 15 Jan 2014, at 09:34, Jon Davies <jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That would help :)
> >
> >
> >> On 15 January 2014 08:50, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@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
> >>
> >>
>
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