[Kde-accessibility] Re: Feedback on qatkbridge snapshot

[ojschmidt at kde.org]

Harald Fernengel <harry at kdevelop.org> schrieb am 14.03.2004, 16:14:17:
> I'd rather vote for "wait for Qt 4" since we can make widgets accessible 
> in a clean way rather than adding crude hacks and workarounds to prevent 
> breaking binary compatibility.

Good. Do you know when the first Qt 4 snapshots will be available?

> A widget that is not accessible should be treated just like a bug, 
> meaning that someone has to step up and fix it. I think everyone 
> realizes the importance of accessibility, so we won't have to fight to 
> make widgets accessible.

Very good. Will every application have to write a qt plug-in for custom
widgets or will there be a way to make widgets accessible without
creating a second binary?

Providing one plug-in for all of KDE doesn't seem to be possible because
of dependency issues, unless accessibility information can be provided
in subclassed widgets themselves - or which exactly is the way you
recommend using?

> I'm planning to give a tutorial about accessibility and KDE at the next KDE
> conference so that people can write new KDE 4.x stuff "accessibility-friendly".

Great. I was already planning to ask you to do exactly this.

At FOSDEM, Gunnar did a talk about making KDE accessible, but there were
not many responses to it - probably because most of the people in the
audience weren't KDE people, and Gunnar couldn't show anything in action
yet.

Olaf