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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 |