====== [hemmerling] Accessibility ====== ===== Accessibility Guidelines and Certfication ===== *[[http://www.w3.org/WAI/|Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)]]. *[[http://bobbyapproved.com/|Bobby Approved]]. *[[http://www.cast.org/products/Bobby/|CAST:Bobby]]. *[[http://www.cenelec.eu/|European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization ( CENELEC )]] *[[http://www.engenhariadereabilitacao.net/arquivo/cclcgd006.pdf|CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities]] ( PDF ). ===== Hardware ===== *[[http://www.ipd-hannover.de/ipd/braille-sense-u2-qwertz.php|IPD Infosystem Produktion and Distribution GmbH - "Hilfsmittel für Blinde und Sehbehinderte"]]. *[[http://www.selvasblv.com/|Selvas BLV]]. *[[http://www.selvasblv.com/braille/|Selvas BLV "Braille Device"]]. ===== Software ===== ==== Accessibility Testing Tools ==== *[[http://www.sidar.org/hera/|HERA]]. *[[http://www.sidar.org/recur/aplica/heraffx.php|HERA FFX: Extensión de HERA para Firefox]]. *The commercial [[http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/accessibility/|IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition]]. *[[http://browserlab.adobe.com/|Adobe BrowserLab]] - just free until 2011-12-31. ==== Audio ( Speech ) Tools ==== *[[http://studio.tellme.com/|Tellme Studio]] ==== Speech synthesizers, speech engines and screen readers === === Free Smartphone Plugins === *"Google Talkback" -> See [[android02.html|Google Android 2/5 - App Software]]. === Free & OpenSource Browser Plugins === *The free Chrome browser plugin [[http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromevis-by-google/halnfobaneppemjnonmmhngbfifnafgd|Chrome Web Store "ChromeVis (by Google)"]]. *The free Chrome browser plugin [[http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromevox/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn|Chrome Web Store "ChromeVox"]]. *"WebSpeech" - Free browser plugin for MSIE4 and Netscape 4.x: *[[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.logox.de/demos.php|Archive.org "GDATA Logox"]] ( - 2010-02-10 ): "WebSpeech" - Free browser plugin for MSIE4 and newer. *[[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.download-service.net/webspeech/|Archive.org "Download-Service"]]: "WebSpeech 2" for Netscape 4.x ( - 2012-12-20 ). === Free & OpenSource Application Software === *The OpenSource "Emacspeak --- The Complete Audio Desktop. Emacspeak speech-enables Emacs to turn Emacs into a complete audio desktop". *[[http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/|SourceForge "Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop"]], [[http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/emacspeak/|SourceForge "Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop"]]. *[[http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak|Google Code "emacspeak"]]. *[[http://www.github.com/tvraman/emacspeak|GitHub "tvraman/emacspeak"]], *[[http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/blog|GitHub "emacspeak/blog"]] - "Articles including emacspeak.blogspot.com posts". *[[http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual|GitHub.io "emacspeak/manual"]] - "Info manual for emacspeak" *[[http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/Web|Github.io "emacspeak/Web"]] - "HTML pages making up Emacspeak Web site". *Blog [[http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/|Blog "EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio Desktop"]] - "Here is where I plan to Blog Emacspeak tricks and introduce new features as I implement them". -[[http://www.nvaccess.org/|NVnvaccess - Home of the free NVDA screen reader]] - Download of the free "NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access)" screen reader for Windows. *[[http://www.nvda.jp/2012/curran-PyConJP-2012-NVDA-presentation.html|Michael Curran "NVDA: A Python-based Screen Reader Providing Access to Computers for the Blind"]]. *The OpenSource screen reader [[http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca|Gnome Projects "Orca"]]. *[[http://help.gnome.org/users/orca/|Gnome Help "Orca Screen Reader"]]. *"Orca Already Comes with the Operating System! As of GNOME 2.16, Orca is a part of the GNOME platform. As a result, Orca is already provided by default on a number of operating system distributions, including Fedora and Ubuntu". *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29|EN.Wikipedia "Orca (assistive technology)"]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28Screenreader%29|DE.Wikipedia "Orca (Screenreader)"]]. === Commercial === *[[http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS|Freedom Scientific, Inc. "JAWS"]] - "The World's Most Popular Windows Screen Reader". *[[http://www.freedomscientific.com/JAWSHQ/JAWSHeadquarters01|Freedom Scientific, Inc. "JAWS Headquarters"]]. *As of 2016, JAWS is still standard at German schools for visually handicaped people. *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_%28screen_reader%29|EN.Wikipedia "JAWS (screen reader)"]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS|DE.Wikipedia "JAWS"]]. === Braille Software === *The free [[http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/|BRLTTY Team "BRLTTY"]] for Linux. *"A background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated". *"BRLTTY is just as effective and reliable as the DOS programs, perhaps even more so! It's definitely more flexible". === Resources === *[[http://www.usabilitygeek.com/10-free-screen-reader-blind-visually-impaired-users/|Usabilitygeek "10 Free Screen Readers For Blind Or Visually Impaired Users"]]. ===== Typewriting Skills ===== *[[http://www.tastschreiben.de/p0400040.htm|DIN 5008 - Tastschreiben lernen am Computer "Neue DIN 5008 - Regeln und Anwendungsbeispiele"]]. ===== Resources ===== *[[http://www.barrierefreiheit-beratung.de/|F.H. Papenmeier GmbH & Co.KG]] - "Papenmeier Consulting stellt Ihre IT-Barrierefreiheit sicher und vereinfacht die Inklusion von Mitarbeitern mit Behinderungen". *[[http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgg/__11.html|Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz "Gesetz zur Gleichstellung behinderter Menschen (Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz - BGG), § 11 Barrierefreie Informationstechnik"]]. *[[http://www.din18040.de/|DIN18040]] - "Normungsarbeit Barrierefreies Bauen". *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille|EN.Wikipedia "Braille"]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brailleschrift|EN.Wikipedia "Brailleschrift"]]. ===== Forums, Newsgroups ===== *[[http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/tellmestudio/|MSDN:"Tellme Studio"]]. ===== =====