Projects, Products and Documents
Recommendation: Linux-accessibility-related efforts are being started every day and are occasionally "retired". It is therefore difficult to list all projects or all links the encompass the entirety of imaginable tasks that fit under the heading "Linux accessibility". If you cannot find something here or are looking for a specific tool for a specific programming task, it is recommended that you search [http://www.google.com/ Google] and [http://www.sf.net/ SourceForge]. If you do find things not listed on these pages – please send a note listing them to one of the members in the LarsGroup.
Projects (Community, Collaboration)
[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/ Access Mozilla]: Specifically about [http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla] accessibility but also pertains to Linux accessibility.
[http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/events/csun2003/acsint.html Acsint]: (Accecsibility Interceptor) is a kernel module for the Linux kernel, which provides various information required by screen readers and other assistive technologies. It is made possible due to Carl Dahlke's Linux Accessibility Patch.
[http://www.leb.net/blinux BLINUX (Blind + Linux = BLINUX)]: The purpose of BLINUX is to improve usability of the LINUX operating system for the user who is blind.General Linux accessibility project. It was one of the first such projects and contained the first Linux-accessibility-related mailing lists.
[http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/ Debian-Accessibility Project]: Debian-Accessibility is an internal project to develop Debian into an operating system that is particularly well fit for the requirements of people with disabilities. The goal of Debian-Accessibility is a completely accessible system which offers users with disabilities the highest possible amount of independence, built completely on free software.
[http://trace.wisc.edu/world/computer_access/dacx/ Disability Action Committee for X (DACX)]: This now inactive project included a group of consumers, researchers, and companies whose goal was to develop accessibility features for workstations running the X Window System. Includes historical information about the committee, meeting notes, papers and presentations from the committee's work.
[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility/index.xml Gentoo Linux Accessibility Project]: The Gentoo Accessibility Project provides a way for Gentoo developers in various teams to co-operate on making Gentoo more accessible to disabled users.
[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ GNOME Accessibility Project]: An effort to incorporate accessibility features into GNOME, an entirely free desktop environment for Unix and Linux based systems.
[http://www.chpi.org/gnomebrl.html GNOME Braille Translator (under development)]: This project aims to create a Braille transcription program, an input editor for generating graphics, and an output editor for verifying the translation.
[http://accessibility.kde.org/ KDE Accessibility Project]: The purpose of the KDE Accessibility Project is to make the the entirety of the K Desktop Environment and (by necessity) its underlying technologies usable by and as efficient as possible for disabled users of all types.
[http://www.freebsoft.org/ Free-b-Software]: A project that focuses on free software for the blind.
[http://www.speechinfo.org/fdawg/ Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group (FDAWG)]: A working group that grew out of the (1st) Linux Accessibility Conference at CSUN. It has a mailing list to which many active members in the Linux accessibility community belong.
[http://www.linaccess.org/view.php?pageid=4100 linaccess-knoppix]: A knoppix distibution with special adjustments for disabled developed by [http://www.linaccess.org/ linaccess.org]. The aim of the project is to develop a Knoppix distribution which fulfills the specific needs of blind and visually impaired users. Knoppix is a linux version, which completely runs from CD.
[http://www.linux-speakup.org/listenup.html Listenup]: A project to develop digital talking book standards for Linux.
[http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/ Ocularis]: Initially aimed to create a Linux distribution for the visually impaired based on a free software synthesizer, but now it is an umbrella project that spawns many other efforts (KDE Accessibility Project, FDAWG, the Linux Accessibility Conference(s), and this web page). Its website is out of date.
[https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hci Open-HCI]: Discussion of cross-desktop usability issues; a project to create a central location and format for Human Interface Guidelines on Linux and Free Desktops.
[http://www.oralux.org/ Oralux]: Oralux is an audio GNU/Linux distro for people with vision impairments.
[http://imperial.park.org/Guests/Trace/pavilion/pusl.htm Porting UltraSonix to Linux]: UltraSonix is the name of the screen reader which evolved out of the Mercator Project at Georgia Tech. The goal of this project is to make UltraSonix available to visually-impaired users running X Window System applications on personal computers using Linux.
[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.
Products
[http://www.sighted.com/english/elba2003.html Elba] - A Braille notetaker that runs Linux , manufactured by Papenmeier; features include a Web browser and music player.
Documents
[http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/tech-docs/ GNOME Accessibility Documents]: A collection of documents on how to install GNOME 2.0 with accessibility support and Festival as well as how to build and install Gnopernicus.
[http://www.gnome.org/learn/ GNOME Accessibility Guide]
[http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html How to Install the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution]
[http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Access-HOWTO.html Linux Access HOWTO]: General information on Linux, including software packages such as Emacspeak, BRLTTY, Rsynth, xocr, xzoom, and NFBtrans.
[http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeaccessibility/kttsd/index.html KDE Text-to-Speech system (KTTS) handbook]
[http://www.opensuse.org/Documentation OpenSUSE Linux Documentation]