Summary

Document accessibility helpers

Debian Accessibility Helpers for documents

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for improving accessibility of documents

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Accessibility Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Accessibility which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

Official Debian packages with high relevance

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Accessibility to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Accessibility mailing list

Links to other tasks

Index of all tasks

Braille

Console screen readers

Development tools

Document accessibility helpers

Emacs extensions

Gnome

Input methods

Kde

Optical character recognition (ocr)

Speech recognition

Speech synthesis

X11

Debian Accessibility Document accessibility helpers packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Accessodf

Libreoffice extension to check accessibility of ODF documents

http://sourceforge.net/p/accessodf

Maintainer: Sebastian Humenda

Popcon: 38 users (2 upd.)^*

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License: DFSG free

Official Debian package

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AccessODF is an extension that can be used in OpenOffice.org Writer and in LibreOffice Writer. It enables authors to find and repair accessibility issues in their documents, i.e. issues that make their documents difficult or even impossible to read for people with disabilities. This includes issues such as:

insufficient colour contrast between text and background,
missing text alternatives for images and other objects (such text alternatives are necessary for blind users and other users of text-to-speech software),
missing language identification for the document and for language changes inside the document (language information is needed for conversion into Braille and synthetic speech),
the use of proper Heading styles instead of big bold text to identify headings (this enables document navigation based on headings),
the use of proper tables instead of visually mimicking tables by using tabs or spaces,
the compatibility of images with DAISY, the de-facto standard for digital talking books. For each accessibility issue, AccessODF provides a description and repair suggestions.