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

Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red / Green / Yellow Lines)

your hosts

DC Public Library
Wikimedia DC

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Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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For reference[edit]

Alt Text Caption Tool
Altviewer tool for reviewing alternative text description or "alt text" from thumbnails, images, and videos
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility -- for all readers, notably those with disabilities
Wikipedia article on alternative text for images

Outcomes[edit]

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