This Saturday, November 12, Wikimedia DC is hosting an accessibility hackathon 10am to 5:30pm. RSVP at http://accessibilityhackathon.eventbrite.com/ .
If MediaWiki developers come, they can work on making MediaWiki more accessible -- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility has 129 bugs right now, so there's a lot of work to be done! Katie Filbert (aude), who's running the event, is aiming to get accessibility experts to the event to help developers improve their apps' accessibility. She writes that "at some point, we might do an "audit" of MediaWiki and identify issues ... maybe on Saturday."
Enjoy!
2011/11/7 Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org:
This Saturday, November 12, Wikimedia DC is hosting an accessibility hackathon 10am to 5:30pm. RSVP at http://accessibilityhackathon.eventbrite.com/ .
Just reminding that a blind user in Haifa complained about the accessibility of the Wikimania registration site. It makes a lot of sense to look at that at D.C., too.
-- Amir
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/11/7 Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org:
This Saturday, November 12, Wikimedia DC is hosting an accessibility hackathon 10am to 5:30pm. RSVP at http://accessibilityhackathon.eventbrite.com/ .
Just reminding that a blind user in Haifa complained about the accessibility of the Wikimania registration site. It makes a lot of sense to look at that at D.C., too.
Just as a minor note, we will not be using EventBrite for the actual Wikimania registration.
-Chad
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