[Kde-accessibility] Status update: Qt AT-SPI

Robert Cole rkcole72984 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 19:32:10 UTC 2012


That is great news!

I'm still quite a novice with Git and such, but I am going to figure out 
how to get all of this and test it out.

Thanks for all of the hard work on this!

On 01/03/2012 10:24 AM, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quick update from my side:
> Qt 4.8.0 has been released which includes tons of accessibility fixes.
> In fact it's the first release that I would recommend to test on Linux.
>
> In addition to Qt  you need the qt-at-spi bridge from http://gitorious.org/qt-
> at-spi
> Just grab the master branch (and bug me to make a proper release).
>
> I belive the state of both Qt and the bridge to be now good enough to be used.
> Feedback from users is appreciated now.
>
> You should simply use the usual Gnome accessibility tools such as Orca and try
> Qt and KDE applications.
>
> Bugs, especially crashes, go into http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com .
>
> Cheers
> Frederik
>
> PS: known issues:
> still requires "QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1" environment variable to be set
> no accessibility for either GraphicsView or QML/QtQuick
> trees not fully working
> multi line text seems a bit broken on my machine at the moment
>
> PPS: we finally landed the first accessibility patch in QML, so for Qt 5 the
> future looks bright.
>
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