[Kde-accessibility] Accessible text entry in QT applications

[Alex Midence]

Hi, Frederik,

You made reference to KDE 4.9.  Is this the version in Ubuntu Precise?
 If not, is there a ppa that would have it so I don't have to start
completely from scratch on the install?  I do not think Ubuntu 12.10's
alpha environment is accessible at login the way 12.04 was since they
have discarded Unity 2d.

Thanks,
alex M

On 8/8/12, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Mandag 6. august 2012 11.58.27 skrev Alex Midence:
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I just wanted to  touch base with everyone here and find out what
>> progress has been made with regard to reading accessibly text entry
>> fields and text editing in general in qt applications.  I tried KDE
>> out in April and found that I could not use KMail and Kate due to some
>> text editing accessibility issues that needed to be ironed out.  I am
>> an Orca user and would very much like to be able to use this
>> functionality in KDE at some point as I really liked the desktop
>> itself.
>
> Thanks for trying KDE accessibiliyt and pushing us to fix things.
>
> I just updated to KDE 4.9 and I'll check out Kate.
>
> For KMail the problem is still that webkit is used to display the email. I'm
>
> not sure how well the workaround we added for that is (it just grabs the
> text
> of the email, there is no cursor functionality and we don't have an
> accessible
> Qt WebKit yet).
>
> For Kate I found one obvious bug (not properly exposing the text interface)
>
> which is now fixed, so it will be a tiny bit better in KDE 4.9.1.
> In general the editing doesn't seem good yet. I'll spend some more time on
> this one.
>
> I think we have a slightly better text editing experience in Qt Creator. If
>
> you feel like trying that and telling us how far you get that would be much
>
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Frederik
>
>
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