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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 that reads the website to them), and there is no text-to-speech facility in OpenOffice under Gnome. | 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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| [http://ubuntu.com/ The Ubuntu front page] says "Ubuntu includes the very best in ... accessibility infrastructure". Eventually this should actually become true. | == Introduction and documentation == |
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| == Goals and Responsibilities == | * AccessibilityBackground - accessible computing explained * AccessibilityUserGroups - a wide range of user groups * AccessibilityResources - on the web * AccessibilityDocumentation - on the web and todo |
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| * 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 |
== Planning and development == |
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| == 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"]. |
* BreezyAccessibilityStatus - the current release * AccessibleLiveDerivative - future focus * AccessibilityDevelopment - other AT development topics |
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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.
Introduction and documentation
AccessibilityBackground - accessible computing explained
AccessibilityUserGroups - a wide range of user groups
AccessibilityResources - on the web
AccessibilityDocumentation - on the web and todo
Planning and development
BreezyAccessibilityStatus - the current release
AccessibleLiveDerivative - future focus
AccessibilityDevelopment - other AT development topics
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