kde-accessibility Digest, Vol 194, Issue 3

[Iain McG]

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On 20 December 2025 12:00:02 GMT, kde-accessibility-request at kde.org wrote:
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>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:14:02 +0000
>From: Isabel Ruffell <isabel.ruffell at talktalk.net>
>To: kde-accessibility at kde.org
>Subject: Re: kde accessibility
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>Hi,
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>If you need the screenreader in order to turn the screenreader on, this 
>is a bit of a problem!
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>One workaround is to use the run command (Alt F2 or Alt Space, I think, 
>on KDE?) and type orca and hit enter. Then you can use the approach 
>described below to make the setting permanent.
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>This is clearly unsatisfactory. Surely, there should be some 
>standardisation for turning on the screenreader across different 
>environments.
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>I've got to say that I find both major environments have issues for the 
>sight-impaired, particularly when it comes to system settings, key 
>bindings and endless dialog frustration. KDE still has some big gaps 
>too: okular and konsole became unusable for me when I started using a 
>screenreader, and I think that is still the case?
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>Best,
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>Isabel
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>On 18/12/2025 14:10, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>> Oh, I forgot to mention you also need to click the "Apply" button 
>> since system settings don't take effect until you apply them.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM Jeremy Whiting 
>> <jeremypwhiting at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>     Hello,
>>
>>     On plasma the trick is to open System Settings, then go to
>>     Accessibility, then Screen Reader, then click "Enable Screen Reader"
>>
>>     That should get you going. I'm unfortunately unsure if there's
>>     global keyboard combination you can use to do that.
>>
>>     BR,
>>     Jeremy Whiting
>>
>>     On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM Nguyễn Ngọc Tiến
>>     <ntienchelsea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>         hi all users, this is my first question in the mailing list,
>>         today i have a question with orca screenReader accessibility
>>         with kde plasma, i installed kali linux and choose kde plasma
>>         when select desktop environment, but when installation
>>         finished, i can not turn on orca, i tried to press super+alt+s
>>         many times, but orca does not speech anything. my question is:
>>         does kde support orca screenReader?
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