[NFBCS] circling back to the wiki!

[David Farmer]

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 information will certainly result in outdated material.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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