[Kde-accessibility] [kde-guidelines] Custom controls (was Discouraging use of custom widget replacements)

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Wed Jul 10 08:50:25 UTC 2013


On 10.07.2013 10:19, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am cc'ing the accessibility list, because custom controls are a huge
> accessibility problem unless proper support for the accessibility classes is
> implemented.
>
> It would be necessary to include both a big warning and contact points for
> providing accessibility information.

I'd suggest to ask people to not only consult the usability team but 
also the the accessibility team when defining a new widget. That would 
probably work better than trying to include all a11y stuff into the 
guidelines themselves.
Do you think that would work?


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