Accessibility Tips

This wiki collects tips for improving programs accessibility with screen readers. It is not meant to replace application documentation, but for quickly finding useful software and setting useful configuration options.

There is roughly one page per program, explaining which options can be useful to activate for better accessibility (as well as finding our accessible software). They are gathered in some categories, see CategoryCategory.

There is a special page LUG which is meant for LUG people that suddently welcome a blind person in their community.

There is also a page FreeBrailleDisplay for work on a Free Braille Display Project.

You can also just look at all the pages: TitleIndex.

Note: when a tip says to "add something to your ~/.foobar", that means that you should use a text editor, open a file called .foobar in your home directory (create it if it doesn't exist yet), and just put the given lines at the end of the file.

Other interesting starting points

• RecentChanges: recent additions

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

• Edit any page by pressing GetText(Edit) at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[quoted words in brackets]]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq.