[NFBCS] circling back to the wiki!

Thu Dec 29 02:03:07 UTC 2022

Happy Holidays all!  I hope the year end is treating everyone well.
Circling back to this circled back thread.  Did anything come of Wiki? 

I ask because while getting some downtime from work I looked at Jekyll which
powers Github Pages for something entirely different.  However, Jekyll could
possibly work well for a tips & tricks site with multiple contributors with
a fast and easy way to create and update content.  

In short Jekyll is a static page generator from Markdown language for Blog
posts.  The Jekyll server can be run in either a docker container or locally
on Windows, Mac or Linux to build the static files from the markdown and
then push that up to any static hosting service.  Theoretically the markdown
and other accompanying files could be stored in a git repo, collaborated on
as needed and the site pushed via CI-CD tooling.  

Please send your thoughts... also would love to hear if anyone has setup
Jekyll.

Best,
CV

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of David Farmer via NFBCS
Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2022 9:07 PM
To: charles.vanek--- via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: David Farmer <farmer at aimath.org>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] circling back to the wiki!

I can point

accessibilitytools.org

to a particular location, if you want to use that domain name.

Regards,

David Farmer

On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, charles.vanek--- via NFBCS wrote:

> Part of the takeaway also is not to attempt boiling the ocean.  Too 
> much information will certainly result in outdated material.  Also 
> that the best content is not that which reproduces mainstream content, 
> but is a supplement thereto.
>
> Ty et al.
> For a name, what do you think of "Blind Tips & Tricks".  The short 
> site could be blindTNT.com  Kind of gimmicky as Blind dynamite.
>
> Other thoughts/options:
> - blindhowto.com - self-explanatory
> - jawsover.com, a merge of JAWS & VoiceOver.  Though this doesn't 
> convey purpose
> - srtips.net  -  The .com of SR Tips is for sale it appears but .net 
> and others available.  You can probably assume I was thinking Screen 
> Reader Tips.  Auto correct does change this in Outlook to strips though.
> - blindhacks.com is taken and says site coming soon, but .net .org and 
> others available.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Amanda Lacy via 
> NFBCS
> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2022 5:02 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] circling back to the wiki!
>
> My takeaway from that thread was that as blind people, we have less 
> access to information, and we also access information less 
> efficiently. Part of this inefficiency comes from having to retry 
> things that have already proven not to work, and re-invent solutions 
> that are already available. The wiki should not just be about Computer 
> Science but a wide variety of topics. When sighted people want to 
> learn a new skill they go to the internet. We obviously do also, but our
results can vary a lot more.
>
> For instance, here is a tool that aims to make it easier to read 
> scientific papers with a screenreader: https://papertohtml.org
>
>> On Oct 2, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Ty Littlefield via NFBCS 
>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay. I had a ton of projects on my plate I was trying 
>> to
> finalize/round up. I'm circling back to this and didn't want everyone 
> to think I had forgotten it.
>>
>>
>> I'm quite terrible at titles, anyone have some cool names for this so 
>> I
> can get the domain? The plan is to set it up as a github wiki, and we 
> can take input that way. I'd also like to find a group of editors and 
> create some sort of discussion platform (probably a mailing list) to 
> go along with this all. Any thoughts/ideas here would be great.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ty
>>
>>
>>
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