Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Accessibility is made of:

Table of contents

• Braille
• Console screen readers
• Development tools
• Document accessibility helpers
• Emacs extensions
• Gnome
• Input methods
• Kde
• Magnification
• Optical character recognition (ocr)
• Speech recognition
• Speech synthesis
• X11

Braille - Debian Accessibility braille transcription software

This metapackage will install packages which provide braille transcription tools

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cups-filters

OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - Main Package

Dots

Braille typesetting program for GNOME

Liblouisutdml-bin

Braille UTDML translation utilities

Liblouisxml-bin

Braille XML translation utilities

Natbraille

French braille typesetting program

Tuxtype

Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Liblouis-bin

Braille translation library - utilities

Printer-driver-indexbraille

CUPS printing to Index Braille printers

Console screen readers - Debian Accessibility Console (text-mode) screen readers

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Console (text-mode) screen readers.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Brltty

Access software for a blind person using a braille display

Console-braille

Fonts and keymaps for reading/typing unicode braille

Espeakup

Connector between speakup kernel modules and espeak

Yasr

General-purpose console screen reader

Development tools - Debian Accessibility development tools

This metapackage will install packages which are useful to develop accessibility features

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gla11y

Automatic check of accessibility of .ui files

Document accessibility helpers - Debian Accessibility Helpers for documents

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

Emacs extensions - Debian Accessibility Screen review extensions for Emacs

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Screen review extensions for Emacs.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Emacspeak

speech output interface to Emacs

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Speechd-el

Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher

Gnome - Debian Accessibility GNOME Accessibility Software

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for GNOME Accessibility Software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gnome-accessibility-themes

High Contrast GTK 2 theme and icons

Gnome-orca

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Input methods - Debian Accessibility Non-standard input methods

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for non-standard input methods.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Caribou

Configurable on screen keyboard with scanning mode

Eviacam

camera based mouse emulator

Gnome-mousetrap

Head tracked mouse control

Ibus-sharada-braille

transitional dummy package for ibus-braille

Mousetweaks

mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME desktop

Onboard

Simple On-screen Keyboard

Tuxtype

Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux

Wayv

Experimental hand writing/gesture recognition program

Xvkbd

software virtual keyboard for X11

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Cellwriter

grid-entry handwriting input panel

Dasher

graphical predictive text input system

Ibus-braille

Braille input engine for IBus

Kde - Debian Accessibility KDE Accessibility Software

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for KDE Accessibility Software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Kmag

screen magnifier tool

Kmousetool

mouse manipulation tool for the disabled

Kmouth

type-and-say frontend for speech synthesizers

Kttsd

transitional package for jovie

Magnification - Debian Accessibility Magnification software

This metapackage will install packages which are useful to get magnification support

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Compiz

OpenGL window and compositing manager

Kmag

screen magnifier tool

Vmg

Virtual Magnifying Glass

Optical character recognition (ocr) - Debian Accessibility Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Ebook-speaker

eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice

Gocr

Command line OCR

Hocr-gtk

GTK+ frontend for Hebrew OCR

Lios

Linux intelligent OCR solution

Tesseract-ocr

Tesseract command line OCR tool

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Cuneiform

multi-language OCR system

Speech recognition - Debian Accessibility Speech Recognition

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Speech Recognition.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Pocketsphinx

Speech recognition tool

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Sctk

speech recognition scoring toolkit

Sptk

speech signal processing toolkit

Speech synthesis - Debian Accessibility Speech Synthesis

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Speech Synthesis and related APIs or applications.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Daisy-player

player for DAISY Digital Talking Books

Eflite

Festival-Lite based emacspeak speech server

Espeak

Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer

Flite

Small run-time speech synthesis engine

Speech-dispatcher

Common interface to speech synthesizers

Speech-tools

Edinburgh Speech Tools - user binaries

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Festvox-ru

Russian male speaker for Festival

Freetts

speech synthesis system

Gespeaker

GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola

Recite

English text speech synthesizer

Saytime

speaks the current time through your sound card

Sonic

Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech

Speech-dispatcher-festival

Festival support for Speech Dispatcher

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Cicero

French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA

Gnome-speech-dectalk

GNOME text-to-speech library (Fonix DECtalk engine support)

Gnome-speech-ibmtts

GNOME text-to-speech library (IBMTTS engine support)

Gnome-speech-swift

GNOME text-to-speech library (Cepstral swift engine support)

Libttspico-utils

Small Footprint TTS (binaries)

Mbrola

Multilingual software speech synthesizer

X11 - Debian Accessibility X11 Accessibility Software

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for X11 Accessibility Software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Big-cursor

larger mouse cursors for X

Xcalib

Tiny monitor calibration loader for Xorg

Xzoom

magnify part of X display, with real-time updates