Plasma, Accessibility and Keyboard

Frederik Gladhorn frederik at gladhorn.de
Wed Jul 9 10:59:09 UTC 2014


Just a quick follow-up:

kickoff the default app launcher doesn't currently work with screen readers, 
even after spending some time on it. The reason is that it keeps the focus on 
some root item (I didn't check where it actually is). For accessibility I 
currently rely on getting focus changes to inform the screen reader. Since the 
"activeFocus" property never changes, the screen reader never reports any 
focus change. Otherwise key navigation works quite nicely.

I'd like feedback if I need to extend Qt Quick accessibility because it's 
impossible to move the focus around or if the widget could be changed to move 
the focus. (preferably the later of course ;) but if there are restrictions 
making that impossible I'd like to hear them)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337267

I got kicker (the menu based app launcher) to speak with Orca :D
there is only one issue: when opening the launcher via key shortcut it does 
not initially get the keyboard focus. Otherwise it behaves quite OK for 
starting apps.
I'll make a review request for some a11y properties soon.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337268

Cheers,
Frederik

(I'm really excited to see this working, finally KDE Accessibility comes 
together!)



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