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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.

[http://ubuntu.com/ The Ubuntu front page] says "Ubuntu includes the very best in ... accessibility infrastructure". Eventually this should actually become true.

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"].

Interested Contributors

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• JeffWaugh

• JohnHornbeck

• HenrikOmma

• LukeYelavich

• MatthiasUrlichs

• WillBackman

• LionelDricot

• JasonGrieves

• MatthewPaulThomas

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