This is really cool, thank you all for your work! Someone at WikiCon North America asked me about our accessibility issues, and I was embarrassed to not know how to respond - I appreciate the work you're doing to keep us up to date and in best practice compliance with standards today.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Toby Negrin <tneg...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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/st >> atus/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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Katherine Maher Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 kma...@wikimedia.org
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