LukeYelavich

Contact [mailto:themuso@themuso.com Luke Yelavich] by email

I am a 22 year-old student studying at TAFE, completing two IT courses, one of which is a Linux course. I have recently completed a bachelor of music degree, which I was studying for three and a half years. I am currently not employed, but am seeking work.

I heard about Ubuntu Linux on the [http://www.slug.org.au Sydney Linux Users Group] mailing lists, and also saw a demonstration at one of the monthly meetings. I am a vision impaired Linux user, and have a great desire in helping out with Linux Accessibility.

I have been using console-based accessibility tools for a while now, and have also been playing with the GNOME accessibility tools, such as Gnopernicus.

Many blind/vision impaired computer users are unable to install operating systems without some sighted assistance. Linux with a console screen reader has made this partly possible, however one must own a hardware speech synthesizer to do so. I would love to help in putting together the first Linux installation based on software speech synthesis.

I am greatly interested in maintaining accessibility packages such as console and X accessibility tools such as Speakup and Gnopernicus if they are included in a main Ubuntu release. At this stage, Linux accessibility for me is a career path, which I wish to pursue. For this reason, I can dedicate all my time to working on Ubuntu Accessibility.

I have written a few documents that can be found in the AccessibilityTeam area of this wiki and have started a derivitive of the Hoary Live CD, focused on accessibility. More information can be found at the above mentioned accessibility team wiki page.

Since I am a musician/audio enthusiast, I also help out in other areas of Linux. I maintain the [http://www.audioslack.com AudioSlack Project] packaging audio software for Slackware. This project has already been quite rewarding for me.

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