Team
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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