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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Inline frame in KWord broken?
From:       Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt () comcast ! net>
Date:       2005-10-21 22:27:48
Message-ID: 200510211827.49819.garycramblitt () comcast ! net
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On Friday 21 October 2005 04:54 pm, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> > Assuming we get most of the accessibility problems addressed, which is my
> > current goal, it would be nice to test for and report on that as well. :)
>
> Krita will, by definition, always be almost completely inaccessible to
> the partially sighted -- but the motion impaired have their rights, too.
> Is their any effort being done to make KDE accessible to the motion
> impaired, now that I think of it?

Well, I'm no expert, but typically motion impaired people use some sort of 
keyboard and/or mouse pointer enhancing device.  This is why it is important 
to provide "mouseless operation", since some of these devices rely on 
generating keystrokes to substitute for mouse pointing.  Other approaches try 
to substitute mouse pointing for the keyboard, such as Gok (GNU on-screen 
keyboard) and there's the NoKey SOC project, which provides a morse code 
substitute for the keyboard using a pointing device.  There's also the SOC 
speech command enhancement to KHotKeys, which is included in KDE 3.5 and 
which actually works!

Also, some people just have trouble with a mouse (hand shake, poor 
coordination, inability to click with mouse, frame-of-reference confusion, 
etc.), which again is why its important to have keyboard alternatives.

So, yes, we're working on it, but there's lots more to be done.  I'm currently 
picking on KOffice because 1) it has high accessibility visibility right now 
because of the Massachusetts OpenDocument decision, 2) its a key set of KDE 
applications, and 3) kdelibs, kdebase, and kdeaccessibility are in freeze 
right now and any enhancements I do there won't affect anything anytime soon.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php
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