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Accessibility is the degree to which products, devices, services, or environments are available to as many people as possible whatever their circumstances. Accessibility is paramount. Social inclusion is not an act of charity but a fundamental human right.
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xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program which provides the facility to enter characters onto other clients (softwares).
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Florence is an open source extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need this software if you are unable to use a real hardware keyboard.
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Onboard is an onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.
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Easystroke is an open source gesture-recognition application. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.).
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Dasher is an open source information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures.
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Sharada Braille Writer (SBW) is a text editor which supports braille input. SBW is free and open source software.
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BRLTTY gives a braille user access to the text consoles of a Linux/Unix system. It runs as a background process (daemon) which operates a refreshable braille display.
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Liblouis provides an open-source braille translator, back-translator and formatter for a large number of languages and braille codes.
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Orca Screen Reader (Orca) is a free, open source scriptable screen reader which provides access to applications and toolkits.
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Simon is open source speech recognition software which aims to be flexible and highly customizable.
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Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine. It supports N-gram based dictation.
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