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

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi Robert,

for some instructions check this blog entry:
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/

And feel free to send a mail to this list when you run into trouble.

Cheers
Frederik



Tirsdag 3. januar 2012 11.32.10 skrev Robert Cole:
> 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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