kubuntu

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi Daniel and everyone,

Kubuntu will not be very accessible at the moment. There was work in the past 
and a lot of things have improved, but I am sure there are a lot of issues, 
probably starting with getting a screen reader to read the login screen.

I'm very happy to see a bunch of blind users on this list showing interest 
recently. I think what KDE really needs is someone to push for making it work 
well with screen readers.
KDE consists of the applications and the Plasma desktop. Many of the 
individual applications should be working, although I expect some tweaking 
would make them work a lot better. Then there is the desktop environment 
(Plasma) which has seen some testing and probably doesn't require 
insurmountable amounts of work, but certainly some.

If any of you wants to champion testing and helping us get there, I think that 
would be superb. The project will need patience and initially sighted 
assistance would probably be needed, that said I'd be happy to try getting 
anyone started.
The best setup would probably be a working Gnome environment with Plasma 
installed side by side, so that it's just a matter of choosing one or the 
other at login time. Maybe even self-compiled, to be able to test improvements 
quickly so that we can iterate fast.

Cheers,
Frederik

On fredag 28. september 2018 23.28.23 CEST Daniel Crone wrote:
> I downloaded kubuntu.
> How may accessibility be used with this bistro?
> Is it usable for a blind person?