[WikiEN-l] editing wikipedia by thought

[Martijn Hoekstra]

Would an automated category Images without alt text be feasible?


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at 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 at googlemail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you.
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>>
>> 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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