[Kde-accessibility] Plans for KDE 3.4

[Luciano Montanaro]

El Martes 19 Octubre 2004 15:58, Olaf Jan Schmidt escribió:
> Hi!
>
> This is a summary of the plans we have for kdeaccessibility 3.4:
>
> Speech synthesis:
> * Import kdenonbeta/kttsd into kdeaccessibility
> * Import KSayIt (see apps.kde.org) into kdeaccessibility
> * Integrate kttsd and KSayIt closely into KDE, and get usability input on
> how to do this best (passive pop-ups / Konqueror / Kate / KOffice / kpdf
> / kclock / KAlarm / ...)
> * Work with other projects on a common driver API for speech synthesis.
> If this API is not ready before the feature freeze, then we will release
> a kttsd plug-in to do the bridging independently.
>
> Low vision support:
> * Add accessibility customization to kpersonalizer
> * Try to get as many monochrome icons as possible, and provide an icon
> effect to make icons monochrome on-the-fly

Kde-look has a couple of themes that are at least close to what is needed:
- ReinHardt, which comes in SVG too, and can be scaled up to 256 pixels in 
size, but is maybe a bit too abstract-looking, and 
- Flat which has a more conventional look, but has mostly monochromatic 
icons with solid borders. I think we could convince the author to release 
the SVG files if they are needed.

Did anybody check these out? 


> * Create a meta theme for high contrast and low contrast
> * Fix a lot of bugs that make KDE difficult to use for people with low
> vision
>

Sure. Having a list of  the bugs would be handy. Some of them could be 
really easy to fix, if known.

> More Ideas? Comments? Objections?
>
> Olaf

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