Andrew and co,
I have a big fat apology to make. It was actually the wikipedia page
on Lambda Calculus where there are many occurrences of special symbols.
The Wikibook, as far as I've explored, is fully accessible.
Nonetheless, I'd still be more than happy to make my contributions in
any way I can. I am a beginner to functional programming and so I
could play a useful role in ensuring the text takes nothing for
granted with regard to the fundamental principles and beyond.
As a tip for anyone involved in writing and publishing scientific
materials on the web, unless the maths is either written without any
funny symbols or, better still, typeset in latex, it is not
accessible to a screen-reader.
One small point about the Haskell source code is that the column
indentations do not always appear in the screen reader
browse buffer. Of course, there are ways of getting around the issue
and if the author of the Wikibook is interested we could discuss the
details off list.
Cheers,
Paul
At 16:22 22/02/2007, you wrote:
Can you guys point out an example of this in the wiki book? I've never
heard of this accessibility issue. I may even be willing to go back
through and modify the wikibook to make it more accessible of you can
explain what you're referring to. Accessibility is important to me.
On 2/21/07, P. R. Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and can I please ask anyone thinking of using special symbols to
resist the temptation.
Symbols such as the &160 used liberally in the Haskell wikibook are
totally invisible to screen readers.
I would be happy to proof read any document before it goes to the
wikibook to ensure it's fully accessible to screen readers.
Regards,
Paul
At 03:17 22/02/2007, you wrote:
>I made a preliminary page, and fleshed out some of the
>headers/sub-headers on the wiki page for a good Haskell Cookbook
>(aka NOT a PLEAC clone). Please contribute and/or fix the examples
>and explanations so we can make a really nice Cookbook for newbies. :)
>
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cookbook
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