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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] editing wikipedia by thought
From:       Paolo Antonelli <paolopizza1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-02-27 19:07:56
Message-ID: AANLkTimu6U7jNT5Lu_HMxF9vLUuMcPNL4GPAPoqpHJ0a () mail ! gmail ! com
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Dear Mr. Hoekstra,

Registered users may select "Preferences" in the top right toolbar, and then
select "Appearance" and tick off "Simple" under "Skin". The "Simple" skin is
designed for vision-impaired individuals, with its large font size and
simpler lay-out.

Yours sincerly, PaoloNapolitano

2011/2/27 Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra@gmail.com>

> Would an automated category Images without alt text be feasible?
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm all for disability access, but why specifically to Wikimedia as
> > opposed to The Internet or computing in general?
> >
> > There are some things that we could and in my view should be doing to
> > make our sites more open to people with disabilities. Colour schemes
> > in templates maps and so forth should be designed to give contrast
> > that works for various forms of colour blindness, and there are still
> > lots of images in wikipedia that need alt text for people using text
> > readers.
> >
> > WereSpielChequers
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:35:18 +0000
> >> From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you.
> >> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> Message-ID:
> >>        <AANLkTikUP7XWMf6Gqe1F+jB=Y4Qvub-PMXvT4Nb3b3Gm@mail.gmail.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>
> >> How about a pen that you can use to *edit* Wikipedia? No, wait, that
> >> takes longer than typing doesn't it?
> >>
> >> I'm waiting for the app that let's you edit Wikipedia just by
> >> *thinking* (or indeed any application that you can use just by
> >> thinking - some are sort of available already for paraplegics, but the
> >> technology is still in its infancy).
> >>
> >> http://www.technoscan.com/tracking.php?ID=15
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
> >>
> >> None of those seem to cover eyeball movement technology.
> >>
> >> This does, but not the application to paraplegics:
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking
> >>
> >> Here's an interesting page (and an interesting wiki site as well):
> >>
> >> http://abilitynet.wetpaint.com/page/Eye+Pointing
> >>
> >> The closest I could get to anything similar on Wikipedia was one line
> here:
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology
> >>
> >> But I'm probably searching using the wrong terms.
> >>
> >> Carcharoth
> >>
> >
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