1. 1 Accessible Design in Open Source Christophe Strobbe Stuttgart Media University / Hochschule der Medien FOSDEM 2015 2. 2 Libert #0 / Freedom #0 http://liberte0.org/wiki/ 3. 3 Cloud4all & GPII http://www.cloud4all.info/ http://gpii.net/ 4. 4 A niche market? 5. 5 0.4% 6. 6 0.1%www.signlinkstudio.com 7. 7 Cannot use fingers 0.1% 8. 8 Dyslexic >1% 9. 9 Reduced strength 2.8% 10. 10 Intellectually impaired 3% 11. 11 Hard of hearing 6% 12. 12 Ageing 13. 13 The Ageing of Europe Public Domain; Wikipedia 14. 14 Ageing world population Wikipedia; based on UN World Population Prospect, 2008 15. 15 20% over 45 (UN 2012) 16. 16 15% age 65-74: declining eyesight 17. 17 55% age 60+: deaf or hard of hearing 18. 18 50% age 65+: arthritis 19. 19 Accessible design = Designing for our future selves 20. 20 Components of accessibility: Open Accessibility Framework 21. 21 OAF: Creation side 22. 22 OAF: Use side 23. 23 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) 24. 24 2. Stock/re-usable components Web: Dijit, jQuery UI, Fluid Infusion, Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) WxWidgets Java Swing 25. 25 3. Developer tools 26. 26 3. Developer tools: DIAS Simulation of visual impairments in DIAS (NetBeans plugin) http://sourceforge.n et/projects/diasnb/ 27. 27 4. Support Accessible in the platform 28. 29 6. Assistive technologies 29. 30 Automatic adaptation: from Linux 30. 31 Automatic adaptation: to Windows 31. 32 Cloud4all & GPII http://www.cloud4all.info/ http://gpii.net/ 32. 33 Accessibility in open source projects 33. 34 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 34. 35 More examples Guadalinex: http://www.guadalinex.org/ OpenOffice & LibreOffice Specialised distros: Sonar GNU/Linux, Vinux Kolibre: www.kolibre.org 35. 36 Christophe Strobbe strobbe@hdm-stuttgart.de Twitter: @RabelaisA11y