In today's episode, a more in-depth look at assistive technology for desktop computers. Assistive technology is designed to provide assistance to people with disabilities and impairments to help them improve or maintain the capabilities that their condition is preventing. Looking at the assistive technology in Sonar Linux as an example, we describe some of the assistive software that is available for almost any Linux distribution.

00:00 Going Linux #259 · Assistive Technology-Advanced

00:15 Introduction

00:49 New podcast recording and editing machine

04:46 Assistive technology

06:50 Screen Magnification

08:19 On-screen keyboard

09:18 Head and eye-tracking software

11:18 Screen reader

15:03 Keyboard shortcuts

18:14 Usability of web browsers

22:10 Multi-language

23:20 Voice recognition in Sonar

24:30 The Sonar "Getting Started Guide"

25:29 How to help the project

27:43 Accessibility on other distributions

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29:49 End