From kde-accessibility  Tue Jan 04 19:52:10 2005
From: Peter Korn <Peter.Korn () Sun ! COM>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:52:10 +0000
To: kde-accessibility
Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Question: How can I improve my app
Message-Id: <41DAF3EA.6060203 () sun ! com>
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Hi Carsten,

Looking at the app, there are two basic routes you can go (and they aren't 
mutually exclusive):

  1. do work to make the app as self-accessible as possible (your idea
     of Alt-F2, Ctrl-up/ctrl-down are in this vein)
  2. do work to make the app compatible with external assistive technologies

For the former, I suggest a dialog box you can trivially pop up into which you 
enter the atomic element, or one/two-letter name, to select it.  Also allow 
color modification and have an option that respects the desktop color settings 
(to address a variety of color blindness and color/contrast impairments).

For the latter, I suggest you make every entry on the table a focusable button 
you can tab to & through.  Implement the Qt accessility api on these buttons 
(see the work being done for the next major release).  Then test for 
compatibility with Gnopernicus and GOK.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am the author of Kalzium (kdeedu) and have no idea about accessibility. I 
> was asked on IRC to improve the situation for it to help some people who are 
> handicapped.
> 
> To get an idea what Kalzium is have a look at this picture.
> 
> http://ixcp.cip.biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/niehaus/kalziumfeature.png
> 
> One idea I have to help people with problems with hand-eye-coordination is to 
> have something like minicli (the "ALT-F2"-thing of KDE). You enter eg. 72 and 
> press enter and Kalzium reacts like on a mouseclick. Perhaps this can be done 
> with Ctrl-up 72 Ctrl-down.
> 
> But there are probably a million things I could improve if you give me some 
> hints.
> 
> Please CC me for answers.
> 
> Carsten
> 
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