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Maximizing Accessibility: Engaging People With Disabilities in the Linux Community Spencer Hunley State of Accessibility in Linux: Past CLIs Primitive GUIs Improvements with GNOME 2 and KDE enviroments Linux State of

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Maximizing Accessibility: Engaging People With Disabilities in the Linux Community Spencer Hunley

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State of Accessibility in Linux: Past

CLIs
Primitive GUIs
Improvements with

GNOME 2 and KDE enviroments

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Linux State of Accessibility: Present

Lots of apps, lots of

abandoned/ deprecated projects

Unity and GNOME 3
kay, but far from

ideal or optimal

Accessibility largely

an afterthought

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Linux State of Accessibility: Future

The Sonar Project
Vinux
Adriane Knoppix
Voice Control
Speech-to-Text

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The Confinement Cycle

Person with a disability Needs job to earn money for purchase Needs a job to become independent and earn money Needs Assistive Technology device to do job Needs money to buy Assistive Technology device

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How Linux Can Break This Cycle

Cost – Less expensive
ptions for hardware

and software

Greater ability to

customize and configure the system to person-centered specifics

Grows with the person

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Rollin' With The Changes: How To Improve Accessibility

Simple changes build to substantial

improvements

Build upon what is already in the Linux

ecosystem

Accessibility benefits your entire user base

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People With Disabilities: A Largely Untapped Linux Userbase

Thorough bug finding and

beta testing

Real-world usability trials
Growing pool of loyal

users with fresh ideas and perspectives

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Further Information

Americans with Disabilities Act: http://www.ada.gov/ Assistive Technology Industry Association: http://www.atia.org/ Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America: http://resna.org/ GNOME Universal Access: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Fedora Accessibility Guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Accessibility_Guide/index.html Vinux Project: http://vinuxproject.org/ Sonar Project: http://sonar-project.org/ Adriane Knoppix: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html

Spencer Hunley spencer.hunley@gmail.com