Status update

chrys chrys at linux-a11y.org
Mon Oct 22 23:07:41 BST 2018


Howdy,

just small but nice additional info:

 > 2. "dashboard" works well. 2 a11y lables are missing. but keyboard
 > navigation doesnt respect the "panel boarders"

this is just fixed on my local machine. i will sent out the patch 
tomorrow :).
commented here:
https://phabricator.kde.org/T9878

next on my list: the Kickoff menu

by the way, i asked at the orca about an good solution for the task 
switcher. lets wait for answer.

cheers chrys


Am 22.10.18 um 16:23 schrieb Frederik Gladhorn:
> On mandag 22. oktober 2018 12.11.53 CEST chrys at linux-a11y.org wrote:
>> Howdy List,
>>
>> as nobody complaind about my idea to be the coordinator or team
>> "leader" of the plasma kde accessibility project, I see me confirmed
>> in this role now.
> Congratulations :) I approve!
>
>> Whats current?
>> first of all my patch for making desktop icons accessible is applied
>> and backported to 5.12.x, 5.14.x and master.
>> https://phabricator.kde.org/D16309
>> so YAY!
>>
>> I apply for an KDE developer account because i will provide more stuff
>> in near futur.
>> https://identity.kde.org/index.php?r=developerApplication/view&id=819
>> not sure whats needed here or if i will be confirmed (since i only
>> provide one patch yet). but for sure not my last ;).
> Usually we let people contribute a few patches, to not give rights sfor drive-
> by contributors. Once you apply for developer rights, you'll have direct push
> access to all of KDE's repositories.
>
>> what brings me to
>> "whats next":
>> I started on T9878 "Default application starter menu is missing a11y Labels"
>> https://phabricator.kde.org/T9878
>> to make our 3 nice preinstalled menus accessible. The ranking of
>> working state:
>> 1. "kicker" works best. only issue you cannot navigate to favorite
>> section (for testers i would recomment this!)
> Nice, that sounds better than I expected.
>
>> 2. "dashboard" works well. 2 a11y lables are missing. but keyboard
>> navigation doesnt respect the "panel boarders"
> I guess that's fixable... the code is in the same repo as the others I think.
>
>> 3. "kickoff" - the default menu. doesnt work at all. only accessible
>> text is the search box.
>> I assume this to be fixed to end of the week.
> Last time I looked this also had massive keyboard issues, if these are fixed,
> then there is actually hope, making the default work is of course always the
> best solution.
>
>> if anyone is interested in help write code or documentation let me know. :).
>>
>> for T7034 "Accessibility in KWin window switcher"
>> https://phabricator.kde.org/T7034
>> i try to take a look at but its currently to rought for me (whatever
>> on gnome or kde side). so i will ask how this works in gnome on orca
>> list, to get an idea how it works to give an idea how to fix it. on
>> gnome side it looks liek an special stylesheed is set what is
>> interpreted as "ATK_STATE_SELECTED".
> I think this one is tricky indeed. I'm unsure what Orca expects, for other
> windows, we actually send messages that Windows are active/inactive. If we
> don't give the focus to the window manager, we will need to potentially fake
> this.
> We could start a thread on the plasma mailing list at some point, if there is
> no progress.
>
> Cheers,
> Frederik
>
>
>> cheers chrys
>
>
>



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