Open Technology Workshop – Open Source Accessibility

Meeting Details

August 19, 2026
Topic: Open Source Accessibility
Description: Technology has always been used to re-enable the disabled. But in the modern age, it's increasingly the technology itself that we need to ensure is accessible to all. In this month's workshop, we'll explore open source screen readers for both Windows and Linux, and also the built-in accessibility features of the Gnome and KDE Plasma desktop environments for Linux. We'll then look into other free tools and applications to aide in a wide range of limited abilities.

Learn more:
https://orca.gnome.org
https://www.nvaccess.org

Feel free to bring your laptops and we'll dive right in! If you've got some questions you'd like to talk about, put them in the Meetup comments below!