[Kde-accessibility] VINUX-SUPPORT: RE: [orca-list] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

[Krishnakant Mane]

yeah, I had tryed as well and had the same problem.
I think there could be some more things to test and if they are not 
fundamentally broke, then we are in  for a happy surprise.
I would be interested to see how Firefox works under this infra 
structure and how libre office works as well.
Personally, I use Eclipse so that's another thing to watch out.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 07/24/2013 07:17 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Very true.  The thing that I want to test is editable text areas in QT.
> That was the biggest problem I saw last year when I was trying out KDE.  If
> you were in Kate or Kmail and there was some text you wanted to put in
> either because you were editing a file or filling out a form of some kind,
> Orca couldn't read it back to you.  If it was a field you were filling in,
> you could tab away and backtab back to it and Orca would speak its contents
> but, individual character by character or word by word navigation was not
> possible at the time.  I hope that's gotten better since then.  I haven't
> looked at it since May or June of last year, I think.  It is a very
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> From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krmane at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:42 AM
> To: Alex Midence
> Cc: 'Frederik Gladhorn'; kde-accessibility at kde.org;
> vinux-support at googlegroups.com; 'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List';
> orca-list at gnome.org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to
> Mir and QT
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> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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> On 07/24/2013 06:37 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
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> Wonderful news!  I certainly feel better for it.  Thanks for all your hard
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> From: Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:frederik at gladhorn.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:21 AM
> To: kde-accessibility at kde.org
> Cc: Alex Midence; orca-list at gnome.org; vinux-support at googlegroups.com;
> Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT
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> On Tuesday 23. July 2013 13.23.47 Alex Midence wrote:
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> Qt 5 contains all the accessibility code that was used for Qt 4, including
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> All in all this means that the Qt 5 based Unity should be able to reach the
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> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announced
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