Review Request 122540: Add screen reader to Accessibility KCM

[David Edmundson]

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Ship it!


Ship It!

- David Edmundson


On Feb. 12, 2015, 6:12 p.m., Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 12, 2015, 6:12 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Jonathan Riddell, Sebastian Sauer, and Jeremy Whiting.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> This patch adds a simple check box to the KCM which enables the screen
> reader.
> It additionally sets up the default shortcut - Meta-Alt-S which is the
> same as in Gnome. Using the same shortcut is of course extremely
> important, since blind users rely on an easy way to activeate the screen
> reader.
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> For now the whole process is hard-coded to Orca since there are no real
> alternatives for Linux screen readers at the moment.
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> The gconfig call which disables the screen reader will make Orca exit.
> It still needs to be launched manually.
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> I don't have much time for cleaning up the KCM, so help would be very much appreciated.
> There are a lot of low hanging fruits for cleanup there. Also the port to kf5, away from deprecated stuff is by far not complete.
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> Diffs
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>   kcms/access/kaccess.cpp 2419efb 
>   kcms/access/kcmaccess.cpp 7e0217d 
>   kcms/access/CMakeLists.txt 55990d2 
>   kcms/access/accessibility.ui 2e0db83 
>   kcms/access/kaccess.h e101de4 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122540/diff/
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> Testing
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> This allows me to start and stop Orca using meta-alt-s or the kcm.
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> Thanks,
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> Frederik Gladhorn
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