Review LibKdeAccessibilityClient

[Frederik Gladhorn]

By the way, the code is here:
http://projects.kde.org/libkdeaccessibilityclient

Cheers,
Frederik

Torsdag 16. august 2012 09.29.27 skrev Frederik Gladhorn:
> Hi,
> a few of us trying to improve accessibility of KDE worked on a little
> library, LibKdeAccessibilityClient.
> 
> What it does is making the AT-SPI over DBus protocol easy to use for KDE
> apps. This is the accessibility framework that we share with Gnome. It
> enables two way communication between apps and assistive tools. The first
> users for it would be the magnifiers in KWin and KMag - they can follow the
> focus with it. Further users will be screen readers and Simon with the
> AT-SPI plugin to dynamically create vocabulary for the running
> application's actions.
> 
> I'd like to ask for initial review in order to move this tiny lib to
> kdesupport/frameworks. It's Qt-only and actually only consists of two public
> classes. Due to the underlying AT-SPI being Linux-only it's not cross
> platform in the sense that a windows implementation would need a completely
> different backend (IAccessible(2) or UIA). At this time there is not much
> sense in that since accessibility tools on Windows are more advanced at the
> moment and not something we are interested in providing at this time.
> 
> We'll be writing up a nice tutorial on techbase the next days, for now the
> library comes with a few auto-tests and one example application that lets
> one browse the running applications accessibility interfaces.
> 
> Some of the improvements in that library were made by Amandeep as part of
> his summer of code project (with Sebastian mentoring).
> 
> Feedback is much appreciated.
> 
> Greetings
> Frederik
> 
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