Re: [orca-list] accessibility in qt5

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 01:44:08AM EST, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> On Monday, June 16, 2014 09:54:45 AM Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:39:56AM EST, Kyle wrote:
> > > For those of us using MATE who want to test qt5 accessibility, MATE's
> > > assistive technologies schema/key org.mate.interface accessibility is
> > > insufficient to enable qt5 accessibility. Apparently qt is specifically
> > > checking to be sure GNOME's screen reader key is activated in order to
> > > enable its accessibility features.
> >
> > To clarrify, Qt checks whether accessibility is enabled via at-spi, so
> > at-spi is responsible for checking whether accessibility is enabled. Given
> > at-spi is primarily for GNOME, it checks GNOME settings only at this point.
>
> Is there a better alternative than checking for at-spi on dbus?

Not that I know of, it makes sense for at-spi to do the checking. It could probably do with a mechanism to 
allow different settings to be checked for different environments, however given different desktops store 
settings differently, I am not sure as to the best approach here, perhaps the DE could provide a plugin or 
similar for at-spi to use, and at-spi could use the plugin based on the XDG data in the environment.

Luke