Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DCPL March 2016

Join us for the...

Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library

Join us as we work with DC Public Library to learn about JAWS and HTML programming for accessibility, edit Wikipedia, and add missing image descriptions.

when

March 19, 2016 at 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

where

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

901 G Street NW, Washington, DC

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

Please meet on the 2nd floor in room 215.

your hosts

DC Public Library and Wikimedia DC

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I'll attend in person

Please meet on the 2nd floor in room 215!

Duckduckstop (talk)
econterms (talk)

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Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

I'll participate online

Can't make it to the event? You can participate online! Here's how it works:

1

On the day of the event, check in with your Wikipedia username.
Don't have a username yet? It's easy to create one.

2

Choose an article to edit from the list on this page.
Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any topic you like!

3

Have questions during the event? Chat with us!
Some events also include a video or audio conference. You can find more details on this page.

Research resources

The Altedit tool we'll use to find images that need "alt" captions. -- We're finding that you will have to be logged in to Wikipedia to use this tool in Internet Explorer or an error appears.

Outcomes

incipient bug report: alt text is often NOT ready by JAWS. Peter to study how these images are tagged in the HTML from Alexandria, Virginia: (a) the 2015 memorial image in the infobox comes in "right" for JAWS which can identify it as an image ; (b) the "alt text" for the image of the 1878 map is not being read and the image is not identified as an image to JAWS. Zack wanted to use the "G" function in JAWS to get to the next image but could not.
Used altedit.py program to put alt-text labels on images
new alt text labels on images in articles World War I, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, World War I, Alexandria, Virginia, List of Mexicans,‎ Chełmno Land, and more
incipient bug report: Altedit.py seemed to have a problem when one tried to save new alt text from IE when not logged in to Wikipedia. "Key error" or something like that came up. The text was not saved.