More information and useful links

General vision links

http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html
Software Tools for blind and visually Impaired in Gnome

http://accessibility.kde.org/
KDE Accessibility Project

http://usability.kde.org/
KDE's Usability Project

Magnification software for Linux

http://kmag.sourceforge.net/
KDE Magnifier

http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus_use_magnifier.html
Information about the Gnopernicus project magnifier including how to install and use it under Gnome.

http://www.magnifiers.org/links/Screen_Magnifiers/UNIX_Linux/
Information about magnification for low vision users.

Screen readers for Linux

Beam XVI for Linux

Jupiter Speech System

Speakup Screen Review for Linux

Other useful sites - Linux Accessibility Projects

There are an ever growing number of small utilities, and applications that could help to make your computer more accessible and it is worth investigating the Linux forums for guidance on what and where these might be, the first news of them will generally be found on-line.

To find out what is going on in Linux with regard to accessibility there is a new experimental site LARS (Linux Accessibility Resource Site) hosted by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the Unviersity of Toronto which is a summary of the work of the Linux Accessibility community http://lars.atrc.utoronto.ca/

A project in the UK has been set up to create a centralised database and support network for Open Source Assistive Technology and their site at http://fullmeasure.co.uk/OATS/OATSIntro.html is under developement.

A wealth of information about many of the accessibility features available for Linux can be found online at:
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Accessibility-HOWTO/linuxos.shtml or
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Accessibility-HOWTO/