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I do agree that wonderful work has been
done in KDE andXFCE since I have personally tested out the former
and Jonathan Nadeau appears to have had a great deal of success
with the latter. I don't know how matters stand with the XFCE
community but, I do know that KDE could definitely benefit from
more testers. The kde accessibility list is pretty low traffic
and most of it is non-orca related. I think this is because there
just aren't that many Orca users testing KDE out. Those of you
who have Ubuntu 12.04 or higher are in a good positon to help out.
with this. If you install the kubuntu-desktop package, you can
switch back and forth between desktops using lightdm's good
accessibility. It really is a nice desktop and the feedback those
folks get can help them to keep improving things with regard to
accessibility there. I wouldn't say KDE is ready for production
use yet, that's still a ways off but, it is definitely in sight.
If you don't want to take the plunge and just run KDE proper, you
can still provide lots of feedback if you just use the kde
applicaitons from an accessible desktop like Gnome or Unity. For
instance, I rather liked Amarok and would like to be able to use
it better. There's a nice keyring application for your passwords
called KWallet that could use some testing and feedback.
KOrganizer is quite nice as well.
Just some thoughts, Alex M On 9/18/2012 6:37 PM, Jason White wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp --
Alex Midence
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