[Kde-accessibility] Re: Change in kicker behavior: Bug or feature

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

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[Aaron J. Seigo, Samstag, 16. Oktober 2004 19:19]
> i'm forwarding this on to the accessibility list to get their input on
> this as this is their area of specialty. they may have other input when
> it comes to kicker, as well.
>

Thanks for cc'ing us. There are indeed a lotof things which could be 
improved to make kicker more accessibility.

I agree that in some cases, having big sizes is important. You can  set 
the size of user elements through a couple of settings in KDE:

1. Font sizes. This also increases the sizes of buttons and of the window 
title. If there is text in some applets (or in the taskbar, etc.), then 
this settings should be taken into account.

2. Minimum window border size.

3. Icon sizes and Kicker size.

It an applet takes all these settings into account, then it should always 
be possible to scale user elements in kicker to a minimum size. If an 
applet does not respect these global KDE settings, then there should be a 
way to set its size.


One accessibility in kicker currently are the handles for moving an 
applet. These are small, and the popup button is even smaller. Of course 
these sizes are defined by the styles, not by kicker itself, but we are 
currently lacking an accessibile style in KDE. In kdenonbeta there is an 
attempt for this which was created last year, but I don't know if anyone 
plans on finishing this.


Another big accessibility problem for kicker is the lack of keyboard 
navigation. This probably really dificult to fix, but it is also very 
important. Perhaps some changes to Qt will be necessary as well, I don't 
know.

I hope my comments are of help to you, and good luck especially with the 
last point.

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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