[NFBCS] circling back to the wiki!

Mon Jan 9 03:11:56 UTC 2023

I'm so sorry, this fell to the bottom of my list. I was going to get it 
done early december and then we had layoffs and a bunch of personal 
stuff came up. It is on my agenda for this week, however. We will be 
using Github pages. Part of my time on this is a total uncertainty about 
the governing of this whole thing. I don't want to be the only one 
running/accepting content. I'll jump on it and then maybe set up a zoom 
meeting or something when people can attend so that we can all talk 
about potential ideas so it's not all on a single person. This can be 
done via github contributors.

Thanks,

On 12/28/2022 9:03 PM, charles.vanek--- via NFBCS wrote:
> 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 much information will certainly result in outdated material.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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