[Wikimedia-l] Visually impaired

[Amir E. Aharoni]

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 at wikimedia.org.uk>

> How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That would help :)
>
>
> On 15 January 2014 08:50, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at 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 at 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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