[Kde-accessibility] OpenOffice and KDE4 Accessiibilty [was: Orca/KDE Integration]

[Bill Haneman]

>>>5) Switch to Qt4 for NWF
>>>   (a huge task, this one is probably for Kendy).
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>>>And on the long run, there's of course the Qt accessibility bridge to
>>>write.
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>>>
I really don't see this as a useful activity.  OOo already has a 
sophisticated UNO/ATK bridge.  That code can and should be re-used on 
KDE, especially since in the long term interoperability between GTK+ and 
KDE accessibility and assistive technologies is crucial. 

Note that on Windows OOo already bridges to the Java-Accessibility-API 
which, unlike MSAA, provides enough accessibility info for assistive 
technologies to do their job, even when native Win32 widgets are not 
used.  The big challenge to date has been getting Windows AT to use this 
info - but MSAA is not going to be sufficient to get something usable.

best regards

Bill


>Yes, that's part of the switch to qt4 ;-).
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