Status Accessibility Week 44

[chrys]

Howdy,

> Thanks to your asking I have started writing code for KWin which is special,
> so the task switcher will hopefully get there.
oww, this is damn awsome! This is one of the biggest showstoppers :).
thanks man!

Am 02.11.18 um 14:35 schrieb 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
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