Description
May 18, 2023 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we got listed on the event page. Our research for the accessibility page has found quite a few issues with various wallets. Let's rally on May 18, invite everyone to learn about accessibility, and help make some improvements.
Generally, we are hoping to:
- Raise awareness and conversation
- Get people to learn something new (see resources below)
- Get people to contribute
- People with accessibility can share their needs
- Designers can test and identify fixes
- Developers can implement fixes (find a list of issues here)
Really, anyone can help in whichever way they would like.
We've reached out to teams, still waiting for some answers. So far:
- Zeus will offer a 1M sat bounty (to be added to the bounty page) for accessibility fixes (example issue)
Join us on at 7:00 UTC on May 18 for a kick-off session. We'll also chat on this topic during our community call on May 17 at 17:00 UTC.
Useful resources:
- The accessibility page in the Bitcoin Design Guide
- Quick (2.5 min) demo video of mobile testing (iPhone)
- Quick (7 min) demo video of website testing (Safari & Mac)
- Learning bitcoin & design call recording (1 hour) on accessibility testing
- Issues we have found and posted to various wallet project GitHub repos
Get a sweet Nostr badge (see banner image) for participating. Just send a DM to the Bitcoin Design Nostr account, share what you did, and we'll award you the badge. To DM us, use a client like Snort (web), Damus (iOS), or Amethyst (Android).
Join us. It's just one day, and together we can make a dent and allow more people to use bitcoin.