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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wonderful news! I certainly feel better for it. Thanks for all your hard work on qt-at-spi. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alex M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:frederik@gladhorn.de] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> kde-accessibility@kde.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Alex Midence; orca-list@gnome.org; vinux-support@googlegroups.com; Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>On Tuesday 23. July 2013 13.23.47 Alex Midence wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> Hi, all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> It looks like Ubuntu's Unity desktop will be switching to QT/QML in the near<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> future. It looks like they'll be using QT5. Does anyone know the current<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> state of accessibility for qt5 or QML? We were all disappointed to find<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> out that Unity 2d was discontinued in Ubuntu 12.04 and it is believed that<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> Ubuntu 14.04 would continue it's wonderfully accessible legacy. This was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> supposed to soothe our ruffled feathers when 12.10 and 13.04 came out with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> Unity 3d only which was not as accessible. Well, now, I am curious to know<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> if the timetable for that level of accessibility in a Ubuntu desktop will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> need to be pushed back even more in light of this development. Please see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> link below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Qt 5 contains all the accessibility code that was used for Qt 4, including the plugin qt-at-spi which will then no longer be needed. Many things have also been improved since we learned from finally making Qt 4 accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>All in all this means that the Qt 5 based Unity should be able to reach the level of the old Unity and hopefully exceed it. Of course that's still up to the Unity developers and probably a fix here or there in Qt, but generally I would expect things to look good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Frederik<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announced">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announced</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> Alex M<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>