[Kde-accessibility] [orca-list] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

[Alex Midence]

I'll create a virtual machine and begin testing before the month is up.  Do
I need to have something like Fedora Rawhide or Ubuntu 13.10 to test in an
environment that will give you valuable data?  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:frederik at gladhorn.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:35 AM
To: kde-accessibility at kde.org; 'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List';
orca-list at gnome.org
Cc: Alex Midence; 'Krishnakant Mane'
Subject: Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to
Mir and QT

Onsdag 24. juli 2013 08.47.34 skrev Alex Midence:
> 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 important piece of the puzzle.

For Kate it would be great if I could get bug reports with an easy
description on https://bugs.kde.org .

Another interesting thing to try would be Qt Creator - which is probably
quite complex to test, but for me the editor pretty much works with Orca. Or
as a simpler test the text editor example that is shipped with Qt 5
(examples/widgets/richtext/textedit). In general using one of the many
examples shipped with Qt makes it easier for me to reproduce bugs, feel free
to file Qt accessibility bugs on https://bugreports.qt-project.org and make
sure to choose "Gui: Accessibility" as component.

Generally the text interfaces should be much better in Qt 5 compared to Qt
4, but need some testing.

KMail is using WebKit and is not expected to work all that great (even
though Jose made it work much better than before).

Greetings
Frederik

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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 
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> This essentially means we must try things pretty early on and start 
> reporting bugs agressively.
> 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 work on qt-at-spi.
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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 
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> Qt 5 contains all the accessibility code that was used for Qt 4, 
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> Many things have also been improved since we learned from finally making
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> All in all this means that the Qt 5 based Unity should be able to 
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> that's still up to the Unity developers and probably a fix here or 
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