From kde-accessibility  Wed Jan 05 13:29:26 2005
From: Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman () Sun ! COM>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:29:26 +0000
To: kde-accessibility
Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Question: How can I improve my app
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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.
>  
>

Hi Carsten:

It's really great to hear from developers who are actively seeking to 
improve their applications' accessibility.  Thanks!

The following document is GNOME-centric, but it contains a lot of 
generally-relevant information I believe.  It's marked "draft" but it 
has not changed in some time - it needs expansion in a few areas but 
should be reasonably correct.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/index.html

There is a section on 'How Accessibility Works in GNOME', and the 
ongoing Qt/Atk work slated (I believe) for the next major KDE release 
will eventually enable much of the same support for KDE applications.

The section "User Interface Guidelines for Supporting Accessibility" is 
possibly the most immediately useful to you.  Of all the requirements, 
full keyboard navigation (i.e. mouseless use) is probably the most 
critical of all, since it affects virtually all users.

best regards,

Bill

>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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