[Kde-accessibility] Lending a Helping Hand

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Frederik,

Thanks. This is definitely a much simplar solution than compiling KDE
from scratch. What I've done is grab the 4.7 packages from the 11.10
beta repository, and have compiled Qt from git. I now need to get and
configure qt-at-spi and then I'll be able to help out with some
feedback.


On 9/7/11, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> it's good to hear from you. I am looking forward to getting your feedback
> and
> I think the best approach is to scratch your own itch.
> Maybe I'm a bit late to chime in, but I'll try anyway.
>
> You don't need to build KDE for now, but start with Qt. You can make KDE use
> a
> newer version of Qt which should just work. Before doing that I would
> recommend to run some simple example applications to see that Orca and the
> Qt
> accessibility bridge like each other.
>
> First steps:
> Get the gnome environment up and running with at-spi2. Depending on your
> distro you will hopefully find packages for libatspi and the newer python
> bindings.
> Then build Qt 4.8 and the plugin that makes it talk to at-spi2.
>
> Some documentation is here:
> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
> especially the two gconf lines and the export QT_ACCESSIBLITY=1
> Best copy and paste that.
>
> Building Qt is reasonably easy. The simplest way is to get it from git
> git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git
> ./configure
> make
>
> without installing it. export PATH to the checkout path with /bin added and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the path with /lib added. You should have the qmake from
> that build in your path now.
> Then get the bridge:
> git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/qt-at-spi.git
> qmake
> make
> make install
>
> If all went well, you can run some example from the bridge. There is a
> folder
> examples/simple which contains just a small gui application with no
> functionallity.
>
> When you have that running it should speak different kinds of widgets.
>
> Running KDE applications is easy now as well. With that Qt version in your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH you should be able to run them and orca should give some
> output. Jose made some recent patches that are only going to be in the next
> KDE release but for the start this should be good.
>
> Let me know if you run into trouble.
>
> Greetings
> Frederik
>
>
> Tirsdag 6. september 2011 18.39.42 skrev Thomas Ward :
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> Thanks. Between your and John's links and information at least I think
>> I have a place to begin reading and studying the development side of
>> KDE and current accessibility. What's the state of qt-atspi right now?
>> I think I'd like to build KDE 4.8 from source and see what needs to be
>> done as far as getting Orca working with the desktop as well as some
>> KDE applications like kedit for example. Then, branch out from there.
>> I realise accessibility is still pretty early in its development, but
>> that's what I'm here for.
>>
>> Cheers!
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