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Accessibility refers to software used primarily by people who are deaf, are mobility impaired, or have sight problems including colour blindness or dyslexia. Some accessibility support does exist for Ubuntu (and Linux generally), but many challenges still remain. OpenOffice and Mozilla/Firefox do not support screen readers (software whitch reads the website to them) and there is no text to speach facilities in OpenOffice under Gnome. |
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| * Make Ubuntu accessible to as wide an audience as we can * Use the best available software in the field, hack ourselves the missing parts * Make periodical reviews and experimentation with different kind of real user groups: Schools, handicapped, dyslexic people, different age groups etc * Provide specialized support for those audience groups. |
* Make Ubuntu accessible to as wide an audience as we can -- See: AccessibilityBackground and AccessibilityUserGroups * Use the best available software in the field, hack ourselves the missing parts -- See: AccessibilityDevelopment * Work with the DocumentationTeam to create useful documentation on how to set up and use the existing accessibility features -- See: AccessibilityDocumentation * Perform testing of implemented accessibility features together with the affected user groups and with specialised hardware -- See: AccessibilityTesting * Facilitate community-based support for different user groups -- See: AccessibilitySupport |
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| == Documentation == | == Accessible LiveCD Derivative == |
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| * AccessibilityHowto - How to install and use the accessibility features available in Ubuntu * AccessibilityResources - Useful links relating to accessibility on Linux * [Accessible GNOME applications] - A list of what applications are usable with the GNOME accessibility tools * There is an IRC channel to discuss accessibility for Ubuntu on freenode.net in #ubuntu-accessibility. == Goals for Hoary == ''Enter suggestions for accessibility improvements to be worked on for the Hoary release:'' * [Accessible Hoary Live CD Derivative] == Goals for Breezy == ''Enter suggestions for accessibility improvements to be worked on for the Breezy release:'' * Link to Ubuntu DownUnder Specification: [http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/AccessibilityRoadmap] * [Accessibility Aware Installer] * [Single Click Install] * Resolve [Access Keys Conflicts] * Some comments in regard to the Accessibility Roadmap linked to above: AccessibilityRoadmapDetails == Accessibility Wishlist == ''List anything here that would be a nice to have, but doesn't look like happening in the future, due to necessary outside participation, etc:'' * [Unified Speech Synthesis API] * '''Hearing and Speech Impairments''' (Kevin Cole) Computer accessability often looks at vision-impairments and mobility-impairments, without giving much thought to deafness and speech pathologies. While I don't have a LOT of ideas about computer tools that would be useful, a few that come to mind are: * Text-to-Speech (a la Festival, etc, which I see mentioned just above this entry) * Speech-to-Text (a tougher problem) * ASCII-to-Baudot and vice versa (Really *-to-Baudot and Baudot-to-*) * Video-conferencing (mbone, openh323) |
* To facilitate testing (both of our packages and also of the end-user's experience and specific hardware, we have made an ["AccessibleHoaryLiveCDDerivative"]. |
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| * LionelDricot * JasonGrieves ---- CategoryUbuntuTeams CategoryAccessibility |
Accessibility refers to software used primarily by people who are deaf, are mobility impaired, or have sight problems including colour blindness or dyslexia. Some accessibility support does exist for Ubuntu (and Linux generally), but many challenges still remain. OpenOffice and Mozilla/Firefox do not support screen readers (software whitch reads the website to them) and there is no text to speach facilities in OpenOffice under Gnome.
Goals and Responsibilities
Make Ubuntu accessible to as wide an audience as we can -- See: AccessibilityBackground and AccessibilityUserGroups
Use the best available software in the field, hack ourselves the missing parts -- See: AccessibilityDevelopment
Work with the DocumentationTeam to create useful documentation on how to set up and use the existing accessibility features -- See: AccessibilityDocumentation
Perform testing of implemented accessibility features together with the affected user groups and with specialised hardware -- See: AccessibilityTesting
Facilitate community-based support for different user groups -- See: AccessibilitySupport
Accessible LiveCD Derivative
- To facilitate testing (both of our packages and also of the end-user's experience and specific hardware, we have made an ["AccessibleHoaryLiveCDDerivative"].
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Accessibility/Team (last edited 2010-11-03 16:13:42 by 71-209-63-103)