[Kde-accessibility] An accessible Qt? I think not.

Aaron Leventhal aaronlev at moonset.net
Wed Nov 16 21:15:49 CET 2005


Hi Peter,

I agree with everything you say except #2
>   2. it isn't extensible (no easy way to add new capabilities to it)
>   
It's easy to create a new interface that you can QueryService to from an 
IAccessible. We do this in Firefox so that AT vendors get get to an 
ISimpleDOMNode, ISimpleDOMText or ISimpleDOMDocument which allows them 
to get what they need from the content.

We definitely need more than that for OpenOffice. The AT vendors like 
the idea of an IAccessible2 to better support accessibility in documents.

Anyway just wanted to clarify that it actually is possible to add new 
capabilities.

- Aaron


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