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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2011. |
- Title of the submission
Accessibility and Wikipedia : Challenges & Case studies from India
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
User:AniVar and User:Santhosh.thottingal
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
User:AniVar (anivar at movingrepublic dot org) and User:Santhosh.thottingal (santhosh dot thottingal at gmail dot com)
- Country of origin
India
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Indic Project
- Personal homepage or blog
http://anivar.in & http://thottingal.in
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
Wikimedia Accessibility Initiative (WAI) [1] & most of the accessibility initiatives within wikipedia[2]/mediawiki[3] are focused on the issues of physically disabled people [4]. Accessibility in principle is the access to knowledge available for a person, in his/her level of reasoning, without limited by physical challenges. In a developing country context , levels of disability are not limited to physical disabilities. There are many extra levels of accessibility issues such as Illiteracy, absence of English knowledge, availability of local language interfaces & language technology etc excludes a large number of people.
These concerns are getting more complex, when we enter to the accessibility issues of Indian language wikipedias. Approximately 6% of the Indian population has a disability. An additional 34% of the population is illiterate[5] and an additional 77 million are elderly[6]. Even in that there are multiple levels of accessibility issues.
This presentation is an effort to map various levels of issues in accessing Wikimedia projects, through various use cases & case studies. The presentation also highlights various accessibility initiatives & ecosystems in Indian states that addresses such issues, and will share some success stories . We hope this presentation can contribute towards the building of a more inclusive accessibility policy for Wikipedia
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
Wiki Culture and the Community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
No. We can present this tutorial only if We get scholarship.
- Slides or further information (optional)
Will be Provided
- References
- ↑ Wikimedia Accessibility Initiative: [1]
- ↑ Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility) [2]
- ↑ MediaWiki accessibility [3]
- ↑ Blind wikia: Mediawiki and Accessibility [4]
- ↑ 2001 Census Statistics [5]
- ↑ Family Support and Care for the Elderly: Evidences from India [6]
Interested attendees
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