Good morning Steve and everyone. I followed the links above, Steve. Thank you for posting them. We love the ASL Wikipedia and the LIBRAS and Tunisian Sign Language Wikipedias. You wrote an excellent grant request to the Wikimedia Foundation. I am here ready to chat anytime.
I think that to convince more support for SW and generally better up SW, we need to get it used more widely, because now, if i understand properly it can be used only in few programs mainly written by you @Slevinski . We should translate more software into sign languages, like Linux, Firefox, and other open-source software.
Sadly I'm afraid no one would allow it until SW is fully included in Unicode
Maybe these projects could be forks of some kind until it happens.
I fully support the wider use of SignWriting. That's the main purpose of these videos. I would like to show what's possible, highlight the tools that can be used, and get people interested in joining our efforts. It's only a matter of time.
I have been playing with the react iswa: https://github.com/itacirgabral/iswajsx
you can poke with react components here:
https://codesandbox.io/s/iswajsx-8cceh
https://codesandbox.io/s/iswajsx-8cceh
Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHbC6udIqc
There have been deaf/blind people who have used SignWriting. Legally blind, but able to see at high magnification. Interestingly, they have preferred a black background and a white SignWriting line. This is one of the motivations why SignWriting supports color styling. Integration with CSS makes this possible today, whereas before it required the creation of custom PNG images.
You can see this option on my demo pages: https://steveslevinski.me/demo/fsw.html
You can also see this in SignMaker under More >> Preferences with the "Black on White" or the "White on Black". https://signbank.org/signmaker.html
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