DevConf.CZ 2026

Try Desktop Accessibility
2026-06-18 , A218 (capacity 20)

Do you want to try how assistive technologies work?
Do you want to learn how to test accessibility of an application?

Depending on the interest of workshop participants, we will give practical demonstrations of selected topics from the following list of GNOME desktop accessibility features:

  • Orca - basic operations, flat review, learn mode,
  • accerciser - inspect applications from the screen reader's point of view,
  • brltty-xw - virtual Braille display,
  • (screen) magnification,
  • appearance - contrast, dark mode, text size, cursor size, ...
  • suppress moving and flashing content,
  • on-screen keyboard,
  • visual alerts,
  • typing assist - repeat keys, slow keys, sticky keys, bounce keys
  • mouse assist - mouse keys, locate pointer, secondary click, hover click

As impaired users (and developers), we would like to show you what is important for us in GUI and how applications should work not to make our lives (even) more complicated.


Experience level: Beginner - no experience needed

He uses free SW and Linux for more than 25 years.
He is visually impaired.
For last 10 years he works for Red Hat on testing desktop applications focusing on accessibility.