Open source

Accessibility Guides To Key Open Source Software

These help guides are intended to provide support for the customisation of Linux Operating systems primarily using the Gnome desktop.

Many disabled users find that simple changes to settings within the operating system can meet their computing access needs.

Introductory Help sheets include:

Introduction and sources of Information
About Linux
Linux Download Basics

Other sheets deal with customising visual aspects, changes to the keyboard and mouse and the use of some of the inbuilt accessibility software such as GOK which is an onscreen keyboard and the use of Gnopernicus which is a magnifier and screen reader.

Simply click on the name of the file you wish to download, and follow your browsers on screen instructions.

Help sheets are in Adobe portable document format (PDF) to ensure a quick download and consistent printing.

Pdf files are accessible for those using special access technologies if the user has Acrobat Reader version 6 (Search and Screen-reader version) or version 7.

Select this link to download a copy of the accessible version of Acrobat Reader.

We would welcome feedback on these help sheets and whether different titles would be useful.

Open source

Accessibility Guides To Key Open Source Software

General Information about Linux and Accessibility

Customising Appearance in Gnome

Access Applications