Re: [orca-list] Qt 5 accessibility

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This is very good news, and I sincerely hope that developers take good advantage of this as it seems that 
more and more 
applications  are using qt on Linux. 
Regards, and a big thank you to all who have worked and are working on QT accessibility.
--
B.H. 
 

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 03:35:02PM +0200, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since Qt accessibility comes up as a topic every once in a while, I thought 
> I'd give a short update.
>
> Qt 5 is looking better and better when it comes to accessibility. Today Qt 
> 5.3.0 was released and the release contains quite some improvements across the 
> board and on all platforms. I recently wrote a blog post about it:
> http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/05/14/accessibility-in-qt-5-3/
>
> Since KDE is slowly moving towards a release based on Qt 5, I hope that we'll 
> be able to provide a decent experience for everyone from the release of Plasma 
> Next and onwards. By the way, the old environment variable to enable 
> accessibility has been retired and Qt now ships and builds all accessibility 
> code by default, not depending on external plugins any more.
>
> I'd also like to mention that we now have a dedicated mailing list to discuss 
> Qt accessibility issues:
> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility
>
> Another nice project that just started is a cooperation to improve 
> accessibility for Qt apps on mobile devices (targeting Android and iOS).
>
> Let me quote Trenton:
> > My name is Trenton Schulz. I’m a senior research scientist at the Norwegian
> > Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral), and I’m working with Digia on our
> > BestApps project [1] for increasing the accessibility of mobile apps.
> >
> > Currently, we are doing some user investigation about how different people
> > use assistive technology (AT) with their smartphones and apps. In
> > connection with this, I would be interested in finding people that would be
> > interested in participating in a small interview (either over telephone,
> > Skype, or email) about how they use this technology. We are holding a
> > workshop connected to this as well on 19 June in Oslo.
> >
> > So, if you are interested (or know anyone), please let me know via email and
> > I can send more details. Your input can help make future Qt applications
> > more accessible and easier to use for everyone.
>
> I'm looking forward to feedback from the Orca users as more Qt 5 applications 
> become available on Linux.
>
> Greetings,
> Frederik
>
> PS: Qt 4 is in maintenance mode and there will be no real changes in 
> accessibility for it.
>
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