Introduction
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux What is Linux?]
- ["Overview"]: An Overview of Linux Accessibility
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Jun 6, 2006 |
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Dec 8, 2005 |
[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team Ubuntu Accessibility Team Page]: The Ubuntu Accessibility Team aims to raise the level of accessibilty support within Ubuntu and its derivatives. |
Nov 9, 2005 |
Gnome On-screen Keyboard begins work on ["GokAccessibilityDevices"]: better adaptive hardware support for linux. Contributions welcome. |
Nov 16, 2005 |
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office Open Document Format (ODF)] is an open, public, XML-based file format specification for office applications developed by the [http://www.oasis-open.org/ OASIS consortium]. Some of the applications that support Open Document Format are the open source [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org] and [http://www.koffice.org/ KOffice] applications. For more info, see [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn/20051113 Peter Korn's weblog]. |
Nov 11, 2005 |
[http://www.atia.org/conf_2006.html ATIA 2006] serves as a leading forum for the Assistive Technology community to participate in presentations and discussions about new technology, practical applications, and services. Segments of the Assistive Technology industry will be represented in various presentations, demonstrations and/or exhibits on January 18-21, 2006 at Caribe Royale Resort, Orlando, Florida. |
Oct 26, 2005 |
The California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities' 21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference will be held in Los Angeles, CA on March 20-25, 2006. More information on the conference at [http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm CSUN]. |
[http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yweb/forms/soi.php Statement On Desktop Accessibility Development]: A statement made by the Gnome and KDE Accessibility Projects, and the Free Standards Group's Accessibility Workgroup (FSGA) to clarify the plans and goals of their projects with repect to interoperability and standarization. |
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[http://www.linuxwaves.com/Linux_News/ Linux Headlines on linuxwaves.com] |
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[http://dot.kde.org/ KDE News on dot.kde.org] |
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[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/news.html News on GNOME] |
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Current Work on Linux Accessibility
[:Software:Linux/Unix Accessibility Software]
[:LinuxUnixAccessibilitySoftware#OperatingSystemEnhancements:Operating System Enhancements]
[:LinuxUnixAccessibilitySoftware#OCR:Optical Character Recognition (OCR)]
[:LinuxUnixAccessibilitySoftware#OperatingSystem:Operating System]
[:Projects#Projects:Projects]
[:Projects#Products:Products]
[:Projects#Documents:Documents]
What is available for use on the job today?
[:OnTheJobToday:On The Job Today]
Challenges
- [:Problems: Overview]
- [:Problems#Technical: Technical]
[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/GNOME-Accessibility.html Problems the GNOME Accessibility Project is trying to solve]
- [:Problems#Community: Forming of a Community]
- [:Problems#Education: Intra- and Extra-Community Education]
- [:Problems#Awareness: Extra-Community Awareness]
- [:Problems#Todo: High level to-do list]
[http://accessibility.kde.org/#Todo KDE Todo List]
[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/contrib.html Contributing to the GNOME Accessibility Project]
[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/index.html GNOME Accessibility for Developers]
- [:Problems#Technical: Technical]
Events
- Linux Accessibility Forum 2005 (22-25 June 2005 in Karlsruhe/Germany)
The Accessibility Forum is a meeting of users, developers, sponsors and other contributors that wish to support the accessibility of Unix/Linux for people with disabilities. Organized by [http://www.linaccess.org/view.php?pageid=4300&setlang=en linaccess Project] and [http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/8.0.html?L=1 LinuxTag].
- The Linux Accessibility Conference(s) are organized by JP Schnapper-Casteras as part of Project Ocularis and FDAWG.
3rd Linux Accessibility Conference (Past, March 2003): [http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/events/csun2003/ Notes] and [http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/events/csun2003/info.html general information].
- The 2nd annual Linux Accessibility Conference (LAC2) was held on Friday March 22nd in conjunction with the 2002 CSUN Conference in Los Angeles.
[http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/todo/ TODOs formulated during LAC2]
[http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/events/csun2002/notes.html Notes from LAC2]
[http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/events/csun2002/brief_summary.html Summary from LAC2]
Credits
This page is hosted and supported by the [http://atrc.utoronto.ca/ Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)] at the [http://www.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto]. The primary credit for this web site goes to the Linux accessibility movement as a whole, which, though small, has put together these existing tools and resources and is continuing to work on making the Linux environment usable by all. (This site was formerly Edited by JP Schnapper-Casteras and hosted by the Trace R&D Center)
A special thanks goes out to Ben Caldwell, Bill Haneman, Peter Korn, Mark Novak, Bud Rizer and CSUN, Saqib Shaikh, Gregg Vanderheiden, Hans Zoebelein, Sun Microsystems crew in general and many, many more people for their direct and indirect contributions to this site.
Note: If you notice any factual errors, spelling errors, or broken links, or would like to contribute to this site, please contact one of the members in the LarsGroup.
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