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SUMMARY:Lessons Learned for increasing the accessibility for RTL - Batool 
 Almarzouq\, Abdulrahman Alswaji
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DESCRIPTION:Title: **Lessons Learned for increasing the accessibility for 
 Right-to-Left Language support in Open Source Community.**\n\nThe default 
 language input for most open-source tools is left-to-right. However\, this
  excludes a huge community that predominantly uses right-to-left (RTL) lan
 guage and non-Latin scripts such as Arabic\, Urdu and Farsi. Right-to-left
  functionality in many Open Source technologies has long been neglected. T
 his talk will present the lesson we learned in the Open Science Community 
 Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) while localizing Open Source tools (e.g. the Turing W
 ay)\, introducing new resources\, documentation and open educational mater
 ials for open source in Arabic. We will present the challenges we went thr
 ough and the lessons we learned for increasing the accessibility of Open S
 ource tools to RTL users. OSCSA is part of [the International Network of 
 Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC). It is open to individuals 
 from all Arabic-speaking regions without prior knowledge or experience in 
 Open Source. It was built to support inclusive learning communities for no
 vice learners to acquire open-source skills. While growing the community o
 ver the last two years\, we learned many lessons\, which include the know-
 how for localization of Open Source tools to RTL language. This falls unde
 r the internationalization space that is largely overlooked. Localization 
 is especially important in open source projects to support and satisfy the
  needs of the locales and adapt them to the language and culture of a spec
 ific target locale.
LOCATION:Online Stage
URL:https://program.foss-backstage.de/fossback23/talk/G7H39Q/
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