Hi Josh and iOS team and volunteers and Volker! This is wonderful -- thank you for organizing and taking the time for this work.
-Toby On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Joshua Minor <jmi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Just a reminder that the Wikipedia accessibility brownbag will be > *tomorrow* at 1:15 PDT. Join us either in person in the Chip Deubner > Lounge in SF, or via YouTube: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE0PpQkBcI > > I'll be giving a brief intro on the basics of accessibility for the > visually impaired, and the work the iOS team has been doing this week, and > Volker Eckl, Sr. UX Engineer from the WMF Editing team will talk about > efforts on OOjs UI for the web. > > And huge thanks to the volunteers who showed up in Philly this weekend to > hack on the app with Corey, Joe and Austin (https://twitter.com/wild37/ > status/792485190924955648). We're working through your pull requests. > > Thanks, > Josh > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:44 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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