[Kde-accessibility] Re: qt accessibility

[Sebastian Sauer]

Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> 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.

That sayed I also like to point you to http://www.simon-listens.org which 
provides additional a11y-services to the linux-desktop. Simon is great, mature 
and just works out of the box.