christophe strobbe presentation on accessible design in open source at fosdem (1st february 2015)
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Accessible Design in Open Source
Christophe Strobbe
Stuttgart Media University / Hochschule der Medien
FOSDEM 2015
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Liberté #0 / Freedom #0
http://liberte0.org/wiki/
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Cloud4all & GPII
● http://www.cloud4all.info/ ● http://gpii.net/
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A niche market?
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0.4%
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0.1%www.signlinkstudio.com
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Cannot use fingers
0.1%
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Dyslexic
>1%
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Reduced strength
2.8%
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Intellectually impaired
3%
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Hard of hearing
6%
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Ageing
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The “Ageing of Europe”
Public Domain; Wikipedia
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Ageing world population
Wikipedia; based on UN World Population Prospect, 2008
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20%over 45 (UN 2012)
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15%age 65-74: declining eyesight
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55%age 60+:
deaf or hard of hearing
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50%age 65+: arthritis
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Accessible design
=
Designingfor
our future selves
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Components of accessibility:Open Accessibility Framework
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OAF: “Creation” side
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OAF: “Use” side
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1. Define “Accessible”
● Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 ● European standard ETSI EN 301 549● ISO/IEC TR 13066-3:2012: IAccessible2
API● ISO 14289-1:2012: PDF for Universal
Accessibility (PDF/UA)
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2. Stock/re-usable components
● Web: Dijit, jQuery UI, Fluid Infusion, …● Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)● WxWidgets● Java Swing
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3. Developer tools
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3. Developer tools: DIAS
● Simulation of visual impairments in DIAS (NetBeans plugin)
● http://sourceforge.net/projects/diasnb/
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4. Support “Accessible” in the platform
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6. Assistive technologies
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Automatic adaptation: from Linux
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Automatic adaptation: to Windows
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Cloud4all & GPII
● http://www.cloud4all.info/ ● http://gpii.net/
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Accessibilityin
open source projects
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Where is this being done?
● Debian: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/
● Gnome: https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility
● Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility
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More examples
● Guadalinex: http://www.guadalinex.org/ ● OpenOffice & LibreOffice● Specialised distros: Sonar GNU/Linux,
Vinux● Kolibre: www.kolibre.org
