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AccessibilityTeam

Accessibility Team

Goals and Responsibilities

  • 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.

Documentation

  • AccessibilityHowto - How to install and use the accessibility features available in Ubuntu

  • AccessibilityResources - Useful links relating to accessibility on Linux

  • AccessibleGNOMEApplications - 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:

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)

Interested Contributors

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