Gary
Cramblitt

# Accessibility

KDEAP (the &kde; Accessibility Project) aims to ensure that &kde;, as a desktop environment, is accessible to all users, including those of us with physical disabilities. In addition to the accessibility aids in the Control Center, &kde; has several other accessibility tools, which are available in the &kde;-Accessibility package. This package may not be installed on your computer; if it is not, you can download it from here:

- kdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.gz, or kdeaccessibility-1.0.0.tar.bz2

- MD5

- lsm file

For more information on the project, visit the &kde; Accessibility Home Page.

## KMouseTool

KMouseTool is a &kde; program, which clicks the mouse for you, so you do not have to. KMouseTool works with any mouse or pointing device.

KMouseTool

### Related Information

- MouseTool Website: http://mousetool.com

- KMouseTool Handbook

## KMagnifier

KMagnifier (or `kmag`, 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.

KMag

### Related Information

- Website: http://kmag.sourceforge.net

- KMag Handbook

## KMouth

KMouth is a KDE program which enables people who cannot speak to let their computer speak, &eg; 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.

First screenshot of KMouth

Second screenshot of KMouth

Third screenshot of KMouth

### Related Information

- Website: http://www.schmi-dt.de/kmouth/index.en.html

- KMouth Handbook

## KTTS - Text-to-Speech

KTTS is a &kde; application for the conversion of text into audible speech. Currently, since &kde; 3.4, you can use KTTS to speak any text from the &klipper;, the &kde; 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.

To get KTTS up-and-running you will need to start by running `kttsmgr`, the &kde; Text-to-Speech manager.

### Related Information

- Website: http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/

- KTTSD Handbook