[Kde-accessibility] Project Announce: AT-SPI D-Bus

[Olaf Schmidt]

Hello Mark,

this project announcement is phantastic news.

The D-Bus port of AT-SPI is a crucial building block to move KDE accessibility 
forward.

It has long been my dream to have a common accessibility stack shared between 
KDE and GNOME. I always originally lacked technical background knowledge to 
move this forward myself, and when I had learned more about accessibility, I 
was increasingly too much short of time.

In the last years, KDE developers have often asked me where to start when 
dealing with accessibility. I have then given them a few general rules (no 
hardcoded colours and sizes, no reliance on mouse usage, etc) but was unable 
to point them to a good starting point for assistive technology support.

One way to go could be testing tools and/or a tutorial on AT-SPI D-Bus usage. 
Do you think such an approach would work to lower the entry barrier?

Olaf Schmidt