[Wikimedia-l] Visually impaired

[Jon Davies]

WOW on toast! Thanks Amir.


On 15 January 2014 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>wrote:

> 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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