[Kde-accessibility] Accessible text entry in QT applications

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi Alex,

I just fixed some more really bad issues in the Kate editor part (proper text 
functions to get individual lines). The fixes will be in KDE 4.9.1 - due in 
about one month. I also stumbled over one issue in qt-at-spi where I sent the 
wrong keyboard symbol strings. (The Gnome stack/Orca relies on receiving 
random strings such as "Up" when moving the cursor up ...)

Onsdag 8. august 2012 13.50.59 skrev Alex Midence:
> Hi, Frederik,
> 
> You made reference to KDE 4.9.  Is this the version in Ubuntu Precise?

I just committed the fix yesterday. It's not in any distribution. You can try 
to use Project Neon if you want to test with Ubuntu. I don't know much about 
it and have never tried it myself.

http://dot.kde.org/2012/07/24/introducing-project-neon-kvm

>  If not, is there a ppa that would have it so I don't have to start
> completely from scratch on the install?  I do not think Ubuntu 12.10's
> alpha environment is accessible at login the way 12.04 was since they
> have discarded Unity 2d.

Yes, I have no idea how the state is to be honest. I guess it's no problem to 
build things on 12.04, but for packages you probably need 12.10.

Greetings
Frederik


> 
> Thanks,
> alex M
> 
> On 8/8/12, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > Mandag 6. august 2012 11.58.27 skrev Alex Midence:
> >> Hi, all,
> >> 
> >> I just wanted to  touch base with everyone here and find out what
> >> progress has been made with regard to reading accessibly text entry
> >> fields and text editing in general in qt applications.  I tried KDE
> >> out in April and found that I could not use KMail and Kate due to some
> >> text editing accessibility issues that needed to be ironed out.  I am
> >> an Orca user and would very much like to be able to use this
> >> functionality in KDE at some point as I really liked the desktop
> >> itself.
> > 
> > Thanks for trying KDE accessibiliyt and pushing us to fix things.
> > 
> > I just updated to KDE 4.9 and I'll check out Kate.
> > 
> > For KMail the problem is still that webkit is used to display the email.
> > I'm
> > 
> > not sure how well the workaround we added for that is (it just grabs the
> > text
> > of the email, there is no cursor functionality and we don't have an
> > accessible
> > Qt WebKit yet).
> > 
> > For Kate I found one obvious bug (not properly exposing the text
> > interface)
> > 
> > which is now fixed, so it will be a tiny bit better in KDE 4.9.1.
> > In general the editing doesn't seem good yet. I'll spend some more time on
> > this one.
> > 
> > I think we have a slightly better text editing experience in Qt Creator.
> > If
> > 
> > you feel like trying that and telling us how far you get that would be
> > much
> > 
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Frederik