Re: [orca-list] Status of accessibility on various Desktops and WM?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

S. Massy <lists wolfdream ca> wrote:
> Perhaps it would be
> useful to have a wiki or other repository where such information might
> be centralised?

Since this is the Orca list, you presumably have in mind accessibility via
Orca, in which case the Orca wiki could be updated to capture the
accessibility support of various desktop environments.

Gnome, Unity, XFCE and KDE are the only environments I am aware of which
support the ATK/AT-SPI interfaces needed by Orca at all, and, since desktop
enviornment shopping isn't a passtime that I entertain, I can't offer more
detail. Gnome 3.x is improving, relative to the low starting point of Gnome
3.0. It should also be remembered that Gnome developers are the same people
who maintain the accessibility infrastructure which is used across all of the
desktop environments. Unless this changes, I would therefore expect Gnome to
maintain a leadership role in accessibility, but we've seen encouraging work
and commitment from other desktop environments as well, most recently XFCE and
KDE.