KDE / Plasma accessibility report

[chrys]

Howdy List,

well, some time has passed since my last report about KDE / Plasma 
accessibility.

here i wanna give you a quick overview what happend, whats work starts 
aaand whats currently in pipe.

What happened?

KDE Default Start menu is now completely accessible: in Plasmas most 
current version 5.21, the start menu was completely rewritten. Also with 
keyboard only navigation and accessibility in mind. it works quite 
awesome here. The two alternatives what come along with an default KDE / 
Plasma are completly accessible as well. the alternatives cover just 
different layouts like an fullscreen overlay (like gnome shell) and an 
more traditional menu (like mate).

Klipper is accessible: Klipper, the KDE clipboard manager is accessible 
now and bound to an shortcut (in next plasma release). this gives you 
access to your clipboard history. so you can paste stuff you copied some 
time ago. so you can copy "A", paste (or not) it somewhere, copy "B", 
and go back to "A" when needed.


Whats in Pipe?

currently are patches ready for testing to make the tray icons 
accessible and keyboard navigate able. you should be able to focus any 
entry in your tray area. you can find the patches here:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/770

Huge thanks to Carl Swan here, for his nice talk in IRC and its hard 
engagement to make a free world more open.

Whats planned?

we just started to verify the KCM - KDE Control Modul to make it 
completely accessible. this might take some time, but will result in 
give you the complete power of your control panel. currently its just 
partial accessible. this should be a huge step to have KDE fully accessible.


the great thing. not only me. but the whole KDE Community is seriously 
interested in having KDE software fully accessible. this is more 
important IMO than just have one or two persons working on accessibility 
and will warranty, great accessibility in future.


they just switched the git infrastructure to gitlab, that gives better 
accessibility than the previously used phabricator platform as well.


still its not ready for per day usage but, there is a hell lot of very 
nice stuff happening. Also if its not done over night, but will result 
in some very cool alternative for you all!

I might try to report more often to the current happenings in future.

Wanna Help? Are there any bloggers out there? Or interested in write 
some text about progress and happenings? It would be cool if we could 
highlight those changes more often and detailed to the public to share 
the progress. Maybe you wanna contact me.

cheers chrys