[Kde-accessibility] The Status of KDE Accessibility

[Robert Cole]

Hello, everyone.

I just started working with KDE a day or two ago (for the first time) 
and I absolutely love it.

I am a partially blind user, and I rely on screen magnification to use 
my system, and I am also beginning to work with screen readers across 
different operating system platforms (NVDA in Windows and Orca under 
GNOME on my Linux Mint 11 system).
I switched my window manager to Compiz under my new KDE desktop because 
(for some reason) the Zoom feature under KWin was quite jumpy (I am sure 
there could be an easy solution to this, but I do not know where and how 
yet as I am completely new to the KDE desktop).

I have read different articles about the possibility of KDE being made 
accessible to the Orca screen reader, and I have also read a small bit 
about KTTS.

My main question is this: What is the status of KDE Accessibility?

I do not currently know a lot about programming, but if there is 
anything which I can do to help with testing, I can learn what is needed 
and help in that fashion. I just do not know when to begin.

Thank you for your time in reading this, and for any responses.

Kind regards.

Take care.