This is great, thanks for doing this! KL
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Joshua Minor <jmi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, > > We all know the vision: All the knowledge. Every single human being. > > To achieve this, we need to support users across geographies and > languages, but also people with different physical abilities. > > The iOS team, along with others at the foundation, are taking the next > week to focus on how we can make our app, and projects, easier for people > with visual impairments. We're working with an expert blind developer named > Austin Seraphin[1] to make sure we get it right, but we also need your help! > > Check out our wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/ > wiki/Accessibility/2016_sprint > > Some highlights of special events you can participate in over the next > week: > > - *If you are in the Philadelphia area this Saturday *join engineers > from the WMF iOS team for an in person hack-a-thon to make the app more > accessible [2] > - Tune in one week from today, or join us in SF, for a *brownbag about > progress and challenges *of making OOjs UI and the iOS Wikipedia app > accessible [3] > - *Contribute code*, testing or comments for our accessibility tasks > for iOS[4], or across the projects[5] > > If you're not able to join us this week, Corey from the iOS team has also > proposed a related session for the Tech Summit. Check it his proposal here > [6] > > [1] Check his TedX talk on how mobile phones have enabled the blind: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQOZRIA-nA > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility/2016_ > sprint/Side_Project_Saturday > [3] Event is at 1:15 PST in the 5th floor common space, and will be > broadcast and archived on YouTube. Streaming link will be posted on the > wiki shortly. For staff, this event is on the Staff and Learning and Fun > calendars. > [4] Get started contributing by checking out our github: > https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios Our work will happen on this > phab board for the next release: https://phabricator.wikimedia. > org/project/board/2281/ > [5] There's no shortage of tasks for the web, apps and even internal > tools: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/accessibility/ > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148435 > > Thanks, > Josh Minor > PM for Wikipedia app for iOS > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > >
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