Status Accessibility Week 44

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Great initiative!

My update for the week:
Thanks to your asking I have started writing code for KWin which is special, 
so the task switcher will hopefully get there.

I'll write to Chrys in private about having a call finally.

Cheers,
Frederik

On onsdag 31. oktober 2018 23:52:16 CET chrys wrote:
> Howdy List,
> 
> 
> Yes :) i did not give up yet and do not give up in near future. So don't
> worry here :)!!!111
> I made myself a task to inform you periodical to the state of our a11y
> efforts. (maybe once per week or so)
> 
> 1. I have an KDE developer account know!! YAY :). But i promise to not
> do anything with it until my mentor federik allow me to do so. I want to
> do the a11y development for a longer time and wont stop tomorrow doing
> that (for personal reasons). I swear :)!!!!111
> 2. I polished some stuff on my patch to fix the tab-bar of "dash"
> starting menu to make the fix more logical (thanks to federik for any
> suggestions)
> 3. I learned: most of the issues are not mostly related to missing a11y
> labels like it was for the desktop(this is easy to patch), but the focus
> and keyboard navigation needs most of work.
> 4. we need some general implementation guidelines for keyboard
> navigation and focus handling for plasma (KDE?) at all. like noted here:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T9878#165110
> we need some public discussion here. not sure where is the right place.
> 5. we have some ongoing discussion about the most important part; the
> task switcher. Thanks to all here!
> 6. i also did not idle: i have the first, "one and only" inital
> accessible version of kickoff (the default start menu) on my computer!!
> it is still not free on bugs, and federik would kill me ;) if i would
> send this as final solution, but it works!
> BUT it also means that i figured what to do. i will fix the bugs, clean
> the patch (code) up and send it in.
> 
> Priority: is still the task switcher (as most important task) and the
> start menus.
> 
> HELP WANTED:
> 1. i need some native english speaker :) to support me with the wiki
> 2. i don't own an blog (yea i don't  lol). is there someone out there
> what want to blog for me to spread the information to the planet.kde.org
> and the world? a11y needs more attention, for our KDE reasons... yea...
> but overall YES!
> 
> so let me know if you want to help out here! plz :) don't let me hang on
> alone! i bet on you!
> 
> @federik about this:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T9878#165110
> yea would be definitive good. mumble? IRC? what native speaker are you
> 
> :)? when do you have time to give a talk to me? I can not wait to meet
> 
> you. special thanks from my side for your help!
> from my side: i m from Germany, so i speak german best. you can find me
> on (IRC) irc.linux-a11y.org (mostly 24/7). I have 4 days off now. so i
> will be mostly flexible here (not on Friday).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cheers chrys