[orca-list] Accessibility in Plasmas new notification system

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Hey Chrys.

Regarding notifications, it should be pretty simple:

1. Give it ROLE_NOTIFICATION
2. Be sure it emits an object:state-changed:showing event
3. Be sure the displayed text is exposed via the accessible text
   interface, either on the notification itself or in the accessible
   children of the notification

In theory, that should do it. Orca's looking for notifications that
announce their appearance because, like you stated, they don't get focus.

Hope this helps. BTW, I'm not subscribed to plasma-devel, so I'm not
sure if my CCing them will be sufficient. If it's not, and if they need
what I've stated above, please forward it to them.

Thanks again for all your work on this!
--joanie

On 6/6/19 7:45 AM, chrys at linux-a11y.org wrote:
> 
> Howdy Joanie,
> 
> I just give an talk to kbroulik ( the creator of Plasmas new awsome
> notification system).
> see here:
> https://blog.broulik.de/2019/05/next-generation-plasma-notifications/
> 
> He told me that accessibility is not yet implemented. But I see
> notifications are an very importaint part of an desktop system. Problem
> for make it accessible is, that it currently doesnt get the focus at any
> time.
> Is there a best practice to implement this?
> how does gnome do this? how is orca awaiting for incomming
> notifications? do you know how we can make this happen?
> Sorry for bother you with so basic stuff but you are the only one person
> I know what can answer those issues properly.
> 
> maybe a nice side notice for you (and others). We currently work on an
> accessibility HIG for KDE.
> https://hig.kde.org/accessibility/index.html
> Still a WIP, but if someone wants to add some good content just contact me.
> It should contain:
> - Keyboard navigation
> - Focus handling
> - Set A11y Lables/ Descriptions/ roles
> - howto test for good a11y
> 
> cheers chrys
> 
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