[orca-list] qt-at-spi ready for user testing with KDE apps

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hello, list,

Please see the forwarded message below which I snippeted from the KDE
accessibility list digest.  this is very exciting!

Thanks.
Alex M

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From: kde-accessibility-request kde org
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:15 +0000
Subject: kde-accessibility Digest, Vol 97, Issue 1
To: kde-accessibility kde org

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:24:48 +0100
From: Frederik Gladhorn <frederik gladhorn nokia com>
To: kde-accessibility kde org
Subject: [Kde-accessibility] Status update: Qt AT-SPI
Message-ID: <2981560 EydgUMCO78 varney>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi,

just a quick update from my side:
Qt 4.8.0 has been released which includes tons of accessibility fixes.
In fact it's the first release that I would recommend to test on Linux.

In addition to Qt  you need the qt-at-spi bridge from http://gitorious.org/qt-
at-spi
Just grab the master branch (and bug me to make a proper release).

I belive the state of both Qt and the bridge to be now good enough to be used.
Feedback from users is appreciated now.

You should simply use the usual Gnome accessibility tools such as Orca and try
Qt and KDE applications.

Bugs, especially crashes, go into http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com .

Cheers
Frederik

PS: known issues:
still requires "QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1" environment variable to be set
no accessibility for either GraphicsView or QML/QtQuick
trees not fully working
multi line text seems a bit broken on my machine at the moment

PPS: we finally landed the first accessibility patch in QML, so for Qt 5 the
future looks bright.



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