[Kde-accessibility] Research Project Ideas Help

[Harald Fernengel]

Hello David,

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 22:47, David Weinkauf wrote:
> I am applying for a DAAD scholarship to do some research at a German
> University. I am currently involved in accessibility at the University of
> Toronto and would like to concentrate my DAAD research in KDE
> Accessibility. I am a programmer and have wanted, for some time now, to
> involve myself in KDE Accessibility, but have never found the time.
> Hopefully, this DAAD scholarship will provide me with this opportunity. I'm
> wondering if you could inform me as to what areas of KDE Accessibility
> require work / research in hopes that I may potentially use this as a basis
> for my proposal. Any thoughts and / or suggestions are very much
> appreciated.

I am currently busy bridging the at-spi interfaces to Qt. You can get a 
snapshot of a bridge bridging Qt to ATK and spi to Qt (so you can write 
assistive technologies with Qt) on 
http://trolls.troll.no/~harald/accessibility/.

One nice research project would be to write an assistive technology with those 
new interfaces or work on the protocol itself.

Since we are mostly developers here without practical experience, another 
exiting project would be to do some usability studies with disabled people 
and find out where KDE can be optimized.

I believe the speech group has some projects going on, too.

Best regards,
Harald