Re: [orca-list] KDE / Plasma accessibility report

[chrys <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy Didier,

there is no progress so far on sddm. But its on my agenda if most of the 
Desktop stuff works. This should definitive the priority :).

Am 22.04.21 um 01:06 schrieb Didier Spaier via orca-list:
> Howdy Chrys,
>
> thanks for keeping us informed. Much appreciated.
>
> How about sddm?
>
> I'm ready to keep gdm-2.20.11 in Slint 15.0 (I've checked it will 
> work) as it is
> still full featured and fully accessible with braille and speech. 
> However the
> visual appearance of the UI shows its age and I can't upgrade as it 
> would pull
> a full GNOME desktop as dep. which is out of question.
>
> But if sddm  becomes accessible, well, I could say good bye to gdm.
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
>
>
> Le 22/04/2021 à 00:29, chrys a écrit :
> > Howdy List,
> >
> > well, some time has passed since my last report about KDE / Plasma 
> > accessibility.
> >
> > here i wanna give you a quick overview what happend, whats work 
> > starts aaand whats currently in pipe.
> >
> > What happened?
> >
> > KDE Default Start menu is now completely accessible: in Plasmas most 
> > current version 5.21, the start menu was completely rewritten. Also 
> > with keyboard only navigation and accessibility in mind. it works 
> > quite awesome here. The two alternatives what come along with an 
> > default KDE / Plasma are completly accessible as well. the 
> > alternatives cover just different layouts like an fullscreen overlay 
> > (like gnome shell) and an more traditional menu (like mate).
> >
> > Klipper is accessible: Klipper, the KDE clipboard manager is 
> > accessible now and bound to an shortcut (in next plasma release). 
> > this gives you access to your clipboard history. so you can paste 
> > stuff you copied some time ago. so you can copy "A", paste (or not) 
> > it somewhere, copy "B", and go back to "A" when needed.
> >
> >
> > Whats in Pipe?
> >
> > currently are patches ready for testing to make the tray icons 
> > accessible and keyboard navigate able. you should be able to focus 
> > any entry in your tray area. you can find the patches here:
> >
> > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/770
> >
> > Huge thanks to Carl Swan here, for his nice talk in IRC and its hard 
> > engagement to make a free world more open.
> >
> > Whats planned?
> >
> > we just started to verify the KCM - KDE Control Modul to make it 
> > completely accessible. this might take some time, but will result in 
> > give you the complete power of your control panel. currently its just 
> > partial accessible. this should be a huge step to have KDE fully 
> > accessible.
> >
> >
> > the great thing. not only me. but the whole KDE Community is 
> > seriously interested in having KDE software fully accessible. this is 
> > more important IMO than just have one or two persons working on 
> > accessibility and will warranty, great accessibility in future.
> >
> >
> > they just switched the git infrastructure to gitlab, that gives 
> > better accessibility than the previously used phabricator platform as 
> > well.
> >
> >
> > still its not ready for per day usage but, there is a hell lot of 
> > very nice stuff happening. Also if its not done over night, but will 
> > result in some very cool alternative for you all!
> >
> > I might try to report more often to the current happenings in future.
> >
> > Wanna Help? Are there any bloggers out there? Or interested in write 
> > some text about progress and happenings? It would be cool if we could 
> > highlight those changes more often and detailed to the public to 
> > share the progress. Maybe you wanna contact me.
> >
> > cheers chrys
> >
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