What a nice surprise on Friday afternoon, my accessibility improvements (PR) for BlueWallet got merged. 15+ buttons around the application should now actually be understandable for people with low vision (some buttons are general components, so this affects a lot of screens overall). Here’s an attempt to visualize this difference.
Thanks to the BlueWallet for patiently dealing with my inability to properly build and test the app. There are still some open issues that should be really easy for someone with a bit of React Native experience to fix, like the QR Code one. Please reach out to just hop in and help out, if you can. Also, I submitted our accessibility day event, hope we hear back soon.
The design review call for Jam was great this week. Edi really give a super thorough run-down of the application and the design process. For anyone who says that design is just drawing pretty pictures, check this out. My favorite aspects are the way of guiding new users with specific user flows, while also allowing experienced users to do their thing, contextual help, as well as handling the intricacies of communication around privacy.
For Wallet Scrutiny, I dug into the methodology page… a page with about 4,000 words (on the left below). The main thing here is just to logically split it up into multiple pages (intro, test steps, FAQ, etc), implementing the test category structure we came up with for the wallet page, and then combing through the text.
BTC Prague planning is also coming along. We had two calls this week and getting a better idea of how the event is structured, what our options are, and what we want to do. Still tons of planning, but I think things will come together well in the next few weeks. I just posted a more public announcement to get the broader community aware and involved, now that we actually have an idea of what might happen.
The Bitcoin Core App is soooo close to the milestone 1 release (photo by Jarol). Super exciting.
The Nostr primer call was also really interesting.
Saving Satoshi came a bit short this week. There’s a ton to do, but I only had time for some smaller issues and tweaks.
I’ll be traveling next week, so will probably not post an update. Have a good one.
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