Introduction

The goal of this topic is to spread the consciousnes of the existence of blind and visually impaired users among the developers of other free software projects and to show the problems that must be solved to enable blind and visually impaired people to work with a computer.

We would also like to find other developers to actively contribute the development of our projects.

You can read more about the motivation here.

Subtopics

• Speech output ... speech synthesis, available software, uniform interface to speech synthesis.
• Accessible workstation ... Emacspeak, Speakup, ATK, Braille terminals, Brltty.
• Speech support for Emacs ... Emacspeak and its integration with speech sythesizers, Emacspeak and internationalization etc.
• Linux for the blind ... Free(b)deb -- specialized Linux distribution for blind and visually impaired based on Debian GNU/Linux.
• Blind friendly web publishing ... the problems of blind users while browsing the web, possible solutions.

Participants

• Tomas Cerha <cerha@freebsoft.org> ... topic chair
• Hynek Hanke <hanke@volny.cz> ... Speech Daemon project
• Jan Buchal <buchal@brailcom.org> ... Free(b)soft project
• Phil Buch <philsfree@tiscali.fr> ... BigLux project

What was done

At our this years presentation, we were discussing the activities of Free(b)soft project. We introduced it's new web site and all the projects. We had several workshops with other developers describing the details of our current projects and talking about the problems to solve.

Mr. Buchal presented an accessible workstation based on Free Software. This is a Debian GNU/Linux system running Emacs with Emacspeak and Braille terminal with Brltty.

Hynek Hanke presented Speach Daemon project and its progress.

We had a workshop and discussion with people from the BigLux project, which was very important for our common activities.

Links

• Free(b)soft project
• Speech Daemon project homepage
• BigLux project
• CarrefourBLinux forum (French)

Schedule

The schedule of this topic is not available yet.