Manuals, guides and working papers

• For Implementors:

  • ATK Guide

  • GNOME Accessibility for Developers (draft)

  • GNOME 2 Accessibility Mechanics

  • Designing For Disabilities

  • Testing For Accessibility

• AT-SPI over D-Bus:

  • Investigation into AT-SPI D-Bus Migration

  • AT-SPI Re-Engineering to Dbus

  • AT-SPI: CORBA to D-Bus Mapping

• Other:

  • AT-SPI Collection Implementation Planning

  • 2002 Helen Keller Achievement Award (text, pic1 and pic2)

Articles

• Orca accessibility app makes a whale of an impact, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, April 07, 2008

• Orca -- Take the Killer Whale for a Ride, Willie Walker, Linux Journal, March 2008

• Make Your Application Accessible with Accerciser, Eitan Isaacson, Linux Journal, March 2008

• GNOME 2.22 focuses on utilities and standard applications, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, March 17, 2008

• GNOME focuses on accessibility -- with a little help from Mozilla and others, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, February 27, 2008

• Historical reference: ATK Implementation Proposal Draft 0.5 - early implementation proposal for ATK.

• Python Powered Accessibility, Steve Lee, Python Magazine, December 2008

Talks

• GNOME.Asia; October 18-19, 2008

  • GNOME Accessibility Overview

  • Orca: Screen Reading and Magnification for GNOME

• GNOME Boston; October 11-13, 2008

  • Agenda, notes

• FOSDEM 2008

  • "How accessible is Debian?" by Samuel Thibault (audio, odp, html)

• GNOME Boston; October 6-8, 2007

  • Agenda and notes

• GNOME Boston; October 7-9, 2006

  • Agenda and notes

• GUADEC Kristiansand, Norway; 2004

  • Making Accessibility Work in 2.8

• GUAD3C, Seville, Spain; 2002

  • GNOME Accessibility - Here at last! (gzipped tarfile)

  • Making GNOME Applications Accessible (gzipped tarfile)

• California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Conference on Technology and Disabilities; March 2002

  • The GNOME Accessibility APIs in Detail

• Linux Accessibility Conference, Los Angeles, CA; March 21-22, 2001

  • Slightly abridged version of Gnome Accessibility presentation slides (gzipped tarfile)

• GUADEC, Copenhagen, Denmark; April 8, 2001

  • Making GNOME Accessible (gzipped tarfile)

• GNOME Accessibility Summit; October 19, 2000

  • Slides (2013-12-01 - broken link)

  • Meeting transcript courtesy AbleTV.net (2013-12-01 - broken link)

  • Meeting webcast courtesy AbleTV.net (2013-12-01 - broken link)

Audio/Video

• Orca Use in India

  • Collection of three Indian news reports about a seminar that Mr. Krishnakant Mane held for the blind in India late 2007, using Orca and Ubuntu Linux.

  • "True Vision" - a 10 minute promotional piece by ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited) in cooperation with the Government of Tamil Nadu, talking about their adoption and use of Ubuntu Linux and Orca to help the blind in India.

• ACB Radio: In May/June 2003, Marc Mulcahy of Sun Microsystems presented a four-part radio show on ACB Radio exploring the GNOME desktop with Gnopernicus.

  • GNOME v. Windows architecture, Introduction to Gnopernicus (9-May-2003) (2013-12-01 - broken link)

  • GNOME Panel and Control Center (16-May-2003) (2013-12-01 - broken link)

  • DECtalk, speech settings, Nautilus, and gedit (22-May-2003) (2013-12-01 - broken link)

  • Mozilla, Balsa and Java applications (14-Jun-2003) (2013-12-01 - broken link)

• GoogleTechTalks: Dasher, information-efficient text entry

• Screencast: Below are links to several GNOME accessibility demonstration videos. To view a video, click on a link and then click on the video in the page that opens (the video doesn't automatically start). The Flash videos are of questionable quality, causing some things to not be seen. The MPEG4 videos are better quality, but you need a video player capable of playing MPEG4. The Raw OGV files are what recordmydesktop created.

  • Enabling GNOME Accessibility: Shows how to enable GNOME accessibility support: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • GNOME Theming: Demonstrates GNOME font, color, and icon theming: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • Keyboard Enhancements: Demonstrates StickyKeys, SlowKeys, and BounceKeys: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • Dwell Clicking: Demonstrates using MouseTweaks to interact with the GNOME desktop using mouse motion alone: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • GOK Scanning Mode: Demonstrates using the GNOME Onscreen Keyboard (GOK) via a switch: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • Dasher: Demonstrates generating text content via Dasher: Interactive Browser-enabled Dasher Demonstration from the Dasher demonstration page

  • Orca: Demonstrates several uses of Orca

    • Orca basics: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

    • Orca scripting for OpenOffice spell checking: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

    • Orca scripting for Pidgin Instant Messenger: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • Locating the Mouse: Demonstrates how to locate the mouse: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV

  • Testing Speech: Demonstrates how to test GNOME speech: Flash, MPEG4, Raw OGV