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Linux screen reader:: extensible assistive technology

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project is an open source effort to develop an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop environment. The goal of the project is to create a reusable development platform for building alternative and supplemental user interfaces in support of people with diverse disabilities. In this paper, we highlight some key features of LSR including cascading scripts that tailor the user experience to particular applications and tasks, support for novel methods of input and output (e.g. concurrent spatial audio) suited to the needs and preferences of the user, and the ease and flexibility of extension development.

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Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2006
316 pages
ISBN:1595932909
DOI:10.1145/1168987
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Published: 23 October 2006

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  1. AT-SPI
  2. GNOME
  3. accessibility
  4. assistive technology
  5. linux
  6. python
  7. screen reader
  8. scripting
  9. spatial sound
  10. usability

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