[Decapod] Accessibility in Decapod

[Jonathan Hung]

Today I had a chat with Everett to discuss the accessibility of Decapod.
Since the Decapod workflow deals with visual content, my primary concern was
determining how accessible Decapod can be for low-vision users.

In our discussion we covered a range of topics including:

* How to discern the quality of an image for someone using a screen reader
* Accessibility incorporated into an Ubuntu Live CD
* Accessibility of collapsing panes on the UI
* Extensible - to add other hardware support (like scanners) in the future

My notes have been posted here: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/qQGO

Everett remarked how Decapod can potentially be the "final piece of the
puzzle" for screen reader users on Linux. Capturing images and have it
converted to text is not something easily done in Linux, so Decapod has the
potential of being a solution for this.

My impression is that Decapod can be a big asset to users of screen readers.
If we can somehow accomodate the ability to discern image / OCR quality at
the capture stage of the workflow, it would help overcome one of the hurdles
with quality assurance of images for screen reader users.

- Jonathan.
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Jonathan Hung / jhung.utoronto at gmail.com
Fluid Project - ATRC at University of Toronto
Tel: (416) 946-3002
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