From kde-accessibility Wed May 13 11:27:48 2009 From: Olaf Schmidt Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:27:48 +0000 To: kde-accessibility Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] KDE-accessibility/Qt AT-SPI Message-Id: <200905131327.50366.ojschmidt () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-accessibility&m=124221414304927 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============1797156708==" --===============1797156708== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart14288071.BIOYN1jGLq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart14288071.BIOYN1jGLq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Jeremy, thanks a lot for offering to contribute to KDE Accessibility. As you already wrote, Qt had an accessibility framework that can be used to= =20 make Qt and KDE applications accessible with Orca or other assistive=20 technologies. One Trolltech developer (Harald Fernengel) even wrote a D-Bus= =20 interface for it: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDBusBridge See also: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/IAPoke http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDasher This interface could be used by Orca. But it would need to be completed and= =20 bug-fixed to achieve the full results, and in the meantime, it has become c= lear=20 Gnome is now also moving to D-Bus for their accessibility framework. It would make a lot of sense to rework Harald's code to use the same D-Bus= =20 interfaces as Gnome. The timing is very good to get involved now, since it has become clear at l= ast=20 that a common approach with Gnome is possible. Important decisions about th= e=20 =46ree Software accessibility architecture have been made (namely, Gnome's = D-Bus=20 move). Gunnar and I spent a lot of time on KDE Accessibility in the past, but we a= re=20 now at a point where we simply do not have the time any more to continue wi= th=20 this very important work. But I promise to help you as much as I can (by=20 answering questions and maybe by helping with the testing) if you wish to=20 continue with the work started by Harald, Gunnar and myself. Olaf --nextPart14288071.BIOYN1jGLq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkoKrrYACgkQoLYC8AehV8fkDgCePi1o/53iw97dC5pI7v1WAA+0 umEAn3l2HfSbs+jnJxYvKxLap0KtCuqW =cZ5P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart14288071.BIOYN1jGLq-- --===============1797156708== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kde-accessibility mailing list kde-accessibility@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility --===============1797156708==--