Accessibility and Linux
In this section you can find some (hopefully useful) resources to help you understand how you can make linux applications (both command line and graphical ones) accessible, as well as test and evaluate the accessibility of the existing ones. Assistive technologies that allow people with disabilities use linux-based operating systems will be listed as well, along with support resources to help you getting started using them.
Resources
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Tesseract User Manual
Vincenzo Rubano·As the name implies, this is the User Manual for [Tesseract]({{z ref “tesseract.md” }}), an open source project that provides both an OCR engine (available as a library) and a command line tool that provides all the features a standalone OCR solution should provide.
Read moreTesseract
Vincenzo Rubano·Initially developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP), and after by Google, Tesseract is an open source project that provides two different (yet related) things: an OCR engine (called libtesseract), available as a framework; a command line program (called tesseract), that allows performing a complete OCR process leveraging the features provided by the “libtesseract” framework.
Read moreAccessibility Principles
Vincenzo Rubano·All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).
Read moreStories of Web Users
Vincenzo Rubano·Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.
Read moreTools and Techniques that People With Disabilities Use to Interact With the Web (W3C)
Vincenzo Rubano·In this informative tutorial from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) you can find a list of tools, techniques, strategies, custom settings and whatnot that people with disabilities may use while browsing the Inter.
Read moreDiverse Abilities and Barriers
Vincenzo Rubano·This informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.
Read moreDesign Considerations: One Size Fits All?
Vincenzo Rubano·When it comes to making a website or application accessible, sometimes it is tempting to elaborate different designs to accommodate people with different needs. In this guide from WebAIM you can find a brief overview how the pros and cons of this choice when compared to the available alternative: a single design, that tries to accommodate all needs of people with disabilities.
Read moreColor Palette Contrast Analyzer
Vincenzo Rubano·Being developed by Deque Systems (the same company behind products such as axe-core and Axe Dev Tools), this color palette contrast analyzer is a web service that allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between all colors in your color palette.
Read moreAccessible Colors
Vincenzo Rubano·This minimal, easy to use web service allows you to quickly test wether the contrast ratio between two colors (foreground and background) is enough for your text to be accessible.
Read moreWebAIM Contrast Checker
Vincenzo Rubano·This service provided by WebAIM (the same company behind the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)) allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between foreground and background colors.
Read moreOpen Dyslexic
Vincenzo Rubano·OpenDyslexic is an open source typeface that aims to help with some of the symptoms of dyslexia, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5).
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