Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Very true.  The thing that I want to test is editable text areas in QT.  That was the biggest problem I saw last year when I was trying out KDE.  If you were in Kate or Kmail and there was some text you wanted to put in either because you were editing a file or filling out a form of some kind, Orca couldn’t read it back to you.  If it was a field you were filling in, you could tab away and backtab back to it and Orca would speak its contents but, individual character by character or word by word navigation was not possible at the time.  I hope that’s gotten better since then.  I haven’t looked at it since May or June of last year, I think.  It is a very important piece of the puzzle.

 

Alex M

 

From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krmane gmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:42 AM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: 'Frederik Gladhorn'; kde-accessibility kde org; vinux-support googlegroups com; 'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

 

This essentially means we must try things pretty early on and start reporting bugs agressively.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 07/24/2013 06:37 PM, Alex Midence wrote:

Wonderful news!  I certainly feel better for it.  Thanks for all your hard

work on qt-at-spi.  

Alex M

From: Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:frederik gladhorn de] 

Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:21 AM

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Cc: Alex Midence; orca-list gnome org; vinux-support googlegroups com;

Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List

Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

Hello,

On Tuesday 23. July 2013 13.23.47 Alex Midence wrote:

Hi, all,

It looks like Ubuntu's Unity desktop will be switching to QT/QML in the

near

future. It looks like they'll be using QT5. Does anyone know the current

state of accessibility for qt5 or QML? We were all disappointed to find

out that Unity 2d was discontinued in Ubuntu 12.04 and it is believed that

Ubuntu 14.04 would continue it's wonderfully accessible legacy. This was

supposed to soothe our ruffled feathers when 12.10 and 13.04 came out with

Unity 3d only which was not as accessible. Well, now, I am curious to know

if the timetable for that level of accessibility in a Ubuntu desktop will

need to be pushed back even more in light of this development. Please see

link below:

Qt 5 contains all the accessibility code that was used for Qt 4, including

the plugin qt-at-spi which will then no longer be needed. Many things have

also been improved since we learned from finally making Qt 4 accessible.

All in all this means that the Qt 5 based Unity should be able to reach the

level of the old Unity and hopefully exceed it. Of course that's still up to

the Unity developers and probably a fix here or there in Qt, but generally I

would expect things to look good.

Greetings

Frederik

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announced

Regards,

Alex M

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