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| = AccessibilityTeam = | #title Accessibility Team ## page was renamed from AccessibilityTeam |
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| = Accessibility Team = | <<Include(Accessibility/Header)>> <<Include(Accessibility/Header/Meetings)>> |
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| == Goals and Responsibilities == | ||<tablestyle="font-size: 0.9em; width:60%; background:#FCFFFF; margin: 0 0 1em 14em;" style="padding:0.5em;"><<TableOfContents(4)>>|| |
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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. |
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| == Documentation == | Accessibility refers to software used primarily by people who are deaf, are mobility impaired, or have sight problems including colour blindness or dyslexia. The Ubuntu Accessibility Team aims to raise the level of accessibilty support within Ubuntu and its derivatives. |
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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. |
== Team Meetings == |
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| == Goals for Hoary == | We typically have meetings on IRC at {{{#ubuntu-accessibility}}} every month. Please see the [[Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda|Meeting Agenda]] for topics and time. |
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| ''Enter suggestions for accessibility improvements to be worked on for the Hoary release:'' * [Accessible Hoary Live CD Derivative] |
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| == Goals for Breezy == | == Team Organisation == |
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| ''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/Team/TODO|Our TODO list]] * [[Accessibility/Testing|Help us test]] * [[Accessibility/NewSoftware|Software we want to include]] * [[Accessibility/Specs|Our specifications]] |
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| == Accessibility Wishlist == | == Introduction and documentation == |
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| ''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) |
* [[Accessibility/background|Accessible computing explained]] * [[Accessibility/UserGroups|A wide range of user groups]] * [[Accessibility/Documentation|Documentation on the web and todo]] * [[Accessibility/Links|Interesting reading]] == Planning and development == * See [[Accessibility/Ideas|ideas]] and [[Accessibility/Specs|specs]] == Mailing List == * [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility|Ubuntu Accessibility mailing list]] == Forum section == * [[http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=145|Assistive Technology & Accessibility in the Ubuntu Forums]] |
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| '''Sign up [[https://launchpad.net/people/accessibility/+join|here]]!''' | |
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| ''Sign up here!'' | |
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| * JeffWaugh * JohnHornbeck * HenrikOmma * LukeYelavich * MatthiasUrlichs * WillBackman |
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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. The Ubuntu Accessibility Team aims to raise the level of accessibilty support within Ubuntu and its derivatives.
Team Meetings
We typically have meetings on IRC at #ubuntu-accessibility every month. Please see the Meeting Agenda for topics and time.
Team Organisation
Introduction and documentation
Planning and development
Mailing List
Forum section
Interested Contributors
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