linux accessibility and different desktops for a total

[Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova]

On 2025-01-03 07:11, Daniel Crone wrote:
>I am a totally blind computer user, familiar with the following platforms:
>windows
>Macintosh, Tiger and up
>ubuntu linux
>Fedora linux
>and as for desktops with linux I have used gnome and mate.
>I hasten to add I am no programmer, just someone who write's text files, checks e-mail, and reads articles on the internet.
>Since I use orca and use keyboard commands and no mouse, for a total, what is an advantage of one desktop over another?
>I would welcome anyone's thoughts as to why one might favor the k d e desktop over another.
>I had thoughtt that prefering one desktop over another would mainly 
>have to do with its appearance for sighted users.

People choose desktops based on end user experience they provide. Visual 
appearance is a part of it, but resource usage, perfomance, stability, 
configurability and other things are also important.

>Also, why is the k d e desktop not yet as accessible as others?

KDE uses Qt framework, which I guess was always less accessible than 
GTK. This is even more true since Qt Declarative (QML) became more 
popular, as it requires you to create components from scrach, making it 
easy to miss things like keyboard navigation and labels.

KDE makes a slow progress in improving accessibility, but it's far from 
ready yet.