[Kde-accessibility] Re: qt accessibility

[Sebastian Sauer]

Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> I have a few friends involved in the Ubuntu Accessibility team, and
> Canonical has signaled their committment to bringing Ubuntu
> accessibility up to the same standard of excellence they are demanding
> of the rest of the desktop. Of course many of these improvements will
> be making their way into Gnome.

Signaling committment is not useful at all. Only doing the job is.
 
> Do we have any equivalent push? Accessibility will become increasingly
> important as KDE is considered by non-profits, governments, schools
> and other public entities. How well will we be able to compete?

KDE 4.6 ships with KAccessible (in the kde-accessibility module) which uses 
QAccessible direct to provide things like focus tracking and screenreading. 
That works very well, is portable and does the job for now. In the future it 
will probably be extended with atspi but then that's only a "maybe" while 
kaccessible already works.