[Kde-accessibility] Status updates, Summer of Code

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi all,

I just wanted to send a few updates.
As many of you will know lately the Qt at-spi2 bridge got some love.
I have a few more fixes waiting to be committed, but all in all I'm very happy.

Most noticable bugs are menus not properly read when opened with shortcut 
(press alt-f for example). I have a fix for Qt, just need to clean it up and 
commit.

The next big issue are lists/trees/tables which are always complicated. I just 
found a few bugs and commited a first fix to the bridge.

On my list now is changing some very basic ways the bridge works with DBus.
At the moment we create on object for each path. I worked on Qt to support one 
object to handle multiple paths. With this we can then handle all accessible 
widgets.
The bridge will from now on use dbus paths that include a pointer to the 
QObject, so they look like 
/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/39847440/3/1
(pointer as int, 3rd child which has another child - eg table/row/cell)

José Millán works on KDE Accessibility as a Summer of Code project, so he will 
update us about the status of the KDE widgets.

With all these improvements and the great cooperation with the Gnome 
accessibility community we'll soon have a great experience for even more users 
:)

Cheers
Frederik