Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DCPL February 2016
Join us for the...
Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
Join us as we work with DC Public Library to improve accessibility on Wikipedia! The first of a new series of monthly events, February's edit-a-thon will focus on improving image descriptions.
when
: February 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
where
: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
: 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC{{#if:Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red / Green / Yellow Lines)|
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your hosts
: DC Public Library
[https://wikimediadc.org Wikimedia DC]
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Sign up!
- Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- econterms (talk) 19:41, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
- TheBlueWizard (talk) 03:38, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
- Uncommon fritillary (talk) 14:30, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
For reference
- [http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altedit.py Alt Text Caption Tool]
- [http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Altviewer Altviewer tool for reviewing alternative text description or "alt text" from thumbnails, images, and videos]
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility] -- for all readers, notably those with disabilities
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_text_for_images Wikipedia article on alternative text for images]
Outcomes
- We had our editathon with five people in the digital commons space. It turned out there were some presentations about accessibility upstairs in the library; tragically the five of us simply missed them.
- But: Room 215 has Braille books and magazines. That's the place to go for Accessibility events in the future.
- Braille magazine - new article
- :Category:Braille publications - new category on en.wp and on commons, which has the new photos below too
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - removed warning banner
- Braille e-book - added alt-tag, which ABSURDLY was not already there
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library -- added section on Center for Accessibility
- Boeing, Kelly Johnson (engineer), many others (42 pages total) - added alt-text for photos
- two bug reports in nice AltEdit program
Photos
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|File:Braille magazine cover example.jpeg
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