1. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Opening Linux for the Visually Impaired: Improving Job Opportunities

2. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Background and needs  Increasing adoption of Linux and Open Source software  Disadvantage for the visually impaired in education and profession  Need for special software solutions

3. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs 01/2007 – 06/2010 Study Centre for the Visually Impaired Students, Universitaet Karlsruhe Screenreader & Usability Extensions

4. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Aims of the project  Free and open source screen reader for graphical user interfaces on Linux supporting typical office tasks  Special training course instructing teachers and students at institutions for the visually impaired in using the SUE screenreader

5. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Technical base Support for  Ubuntu  GNOME desktop  Evolution (Email client)  Firefox (Web browser)  OpenOffice Writer (text processing)  OpenOffice Calc (spreadsheet)‏

6. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Technical base Supported Assitive Technology  multilingual speech output (Espeak)  braille output  support of most types of braille displays  including a braille monitor for the sighted  magnification with Compiz  cursor and focus tracking  large print monitor

7. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Training programme – based on the ECDL  Using IT systems  Using the computer and managing files: Linux  Word processing: OOs Writer  Spread sheets: OOs Calc  Databases: OOs Base  Presentation: OOs Impress  Information & communication: Evolution + Firefox

8. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Training material and methods  Teaching material free available (German) format: OO Writer, accessible PDF, Wiki  Teaching method: self-study  Support concerning technical problems and content

9. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Training courses  at schools and institutions for the visually impaired  content: handling of SUE, the Linux system, OOs Writer & Calc, Firefox and Evolution  feedback will be implemented into the further development of the screenreader, the didactical concept and the training material

10. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 Presentation of SUE

11. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 SUE in various languages  English  German  Hungarian  French  Czech  Dutch  Portugese

12. 2nd International Conference Education for All, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 22-25 http://www.sue-projekt.de (german) http://sue.sourceforge.net (english)‏ Mailing list: sue-list@lists.sourceforge.net (english) More information