<chapter id="accessibility"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Gary</firstname> <surname>Cramblitt </surname> </author> </authorgroup> </chapterinfo> <title>Accessibility</title> <indexterm><primary>Accessibility</primary></indexterm> <para><acronym>KDEAP</acronym> (the &tde; Accessibility Project) aims to ensure that &tde;, as a desktop environment, is accessible to all users, including those of us with physical disabilities. In addition to the accessibility aids in the <link linkend="kcontrol-regional-and-accessibility">Control Center</link>, &tde; has several other accessibility tools, which are available in the &tde;-Accessibility package. This package may not be installed on your computer; if it is not, you can download it from here:</para> <para><itemizedlist> <listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE3.x/accessibility/tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.gz">tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.gz</ulink>, or <ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE3.x/accessibility/tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.bz2">tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.bz2</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE3.x/accessibility/tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.md5">MD5</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE3.x/accessibility/tdeaccessibility-1.0.0.lsm">lsm file</ulink></para></listitem> </itemizedlist></para> <para>For more information on the project, visit the <ulink url="http://accessibility.kde.org/">&tde; Accessibility Home Page</ulink>.</para> <sect1 id="kmousetool"> <title><application>KMouseTool</application></title> <indexterm><primary>Mouse</primary><secondary>clicking automatically</secondary></indexterm> <para> <application>KMouseTool</application> is a &tde; program, which clicks the mouse for you, so you do not have to. <application>KMouseTool</application> works with any mouse or pointing device. </para> <para> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kmousetool.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>KMouseTool</phrase> </textobject> </inlinemediaobject> </para> <itemizedlist><title>Related Information</title> <listitem><para><application>MouseTool</application> Website: <ulink url="http://mousetool.com/">http://mousetool.com</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="help:/kmousetool"><application>KMouseTool</application> Handbook</ulink></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> <sect1 id="kmagnifier"> <title>KMagnifier</title> <indexterm><primary>Magnifier</primary></indexterm> <para>KMagnifier (or <command>kmag</command>, to use its &UNIX; name) is a small utility for Linux to magnify a part of the screen. It magnifies the area of the screen around the mouse pointer or, optionally, a user-defined area. Additionally, it can save a magnified screenshot to disk. </para> <para> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kmag.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>KMag</phrase> </textobject> </inlinemediaobject> </para> <itemizedlist><title>Related Information</title> <listitem><para>Website: <ulink url="http://kmag.sourceforge.net/">http://kmag.sourceforge.net</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="help:/kmag"><application>KMag</application> Handbook</ulink></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> <sect1 id="kmouth"> <title><application>KMouth</application></title> <indexterm><primary>Speech</primary></indexterm> <para><application>KMouth</application> is a TDE program which enables people who cannot speak to let their computer speak, ⪚ mutal people or people who have lost their voice. It has a text-input field and speaks the sentences that you enter. It also has support for user-defined phrasebooks. </para> <para> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kmouth.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>First screenshot of <application>KMouth</application></phrase> </textobject> </inlinemediaobject> </para> <para> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kmouth2.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Second screenshot of <application>KMouth</application></phrase> </textobject> </inlinemediaobject> </para> <para> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kmouth3.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Third screenshot of <application>KMouth</application></phrase> </textobject> </inlinemediaobject> </para> <itemizedlist><title>Related Information</title> <listitem><para>Website: <ulink url="http://www.schmi-dt.de/kmouth/index.en.html">http://www.schmi-dt.de/kmouth/index.en.html</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="help:/kmouth"><application>KMouth</application> Handbook</ulink></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> <sect1 id="ktts"> <title><application>KTTS</application> - Text-to-Speech</title> <para><application>KTTS</application> is a &tde; application for the conversion of text into audible speech. Currently, since &kde; 3.4, you can use <application>KTTS</application> to speak any text from the &klipper;, the &tde; clipboard, any text from a plain text file (using &kate; or otherwise), speak any portion of text from a &HTML; page in &konqueror;, and much more.</para> <para>To get <application>KTTS</application> up-and-running you will need to start by running <command>kttsmgr</command>, the &tde; Text-to-Speech manager.</para> <!-- Insert Screeny here --> <itemizedlist><title>Related Information</title> <listitem><para>Website: <ulink url="http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/">http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/</ulink></para></listitem> <listitem><para><ulink url="help:/kttsd"><application>KTTSD</application> Handbook</ulink></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> </chapter> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file Local variables: mode: xml sgml-omittag:nil sgml-shorttag:nil sgml-namecase-general:nil sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-always-quote-attributes:t sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:true sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") sgml-exposed-tags:nil sgml-local-catalogs:nil sgml-local-ecat-files:nil End: -->