Re: [orca-list] Linux Accessibility: qt-at-spi 0.2 released

[Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn kde org>]

On Wednesday 14. March 2012 23.03.34 hackingKK wrote:
> Wow, this is a great news indeed.
> So can we expect a fairly accessible kde desktop with Ubuntu 12.04?
> Are we going to get all these wonderful updates into kubuntu?
> If not, I guess at least we can have qt atspi bridge into Ubuntu for
> running qt apps?

This is helping in making Qt and KDE apps accessible. It will not make the 
Plasma desktop of KDE accessible by itself. More work is needed there and in 
the applications. Now is the time to start speaking with the larger KDE 
community what needs improvements. It is far easier and rewarding for now to 
get applications in good shape, so that is my first goal. The desktop itself 
will follow along.

If it's in ubuntu it's also in kubuntu and the other way around.
I don't know, since I'm not involved with any distribution.
I do expect distributions to pick the bridge up more and more, all major 
distributions by now have a package somewhere I think (of course different 
ages).

Cheers
Frederik

> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
> On 14/03/12 20:52, MichaÅ Zegan wrote:
> > W dniu 14.03.2012 15:58, Frederik Gladhorn pisze:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the qt-at-spi bridge enables accessibility via screen readers for Qt
> > > applications on Linux.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to release the Qt AT-SPI bridge 0.2.0 into the world. Based
> > > on some
> > > user feedback I could fix a few things. It's also nice to note that
> > > the Qt 5
> > > version of the bridge is up to date and working even better since we
> > > could
> > > make some improvements in the internals.
> > >
> > > Changes since 0.1:
> > > * Sent the right text for text insert/delete events when editing text
> >
> > What is that, actually?
> >
> > > * Password line edits are marked as such
> > > * Improved exposing of keyboard shortcuts
> >
> > And that, just making sure if it's the thing I think aboout...
> >
> > > * Fix menus (again)
> > > * Expose more action interfaces
> > > * Some table/list improvements (hopefully)
> > >
> > > And quite a bit of cleanup, as always.
> > >
> > > Dependencies: Qt 4.8.0
> > >
> > > What is that thing? A bridge that lets Qt applications interface with
> > > the AT-
> > > SPI accessibility framework that GNOME provides. For users that
> > > mostly means
> > > that the Orca screenreader should work nicely with Qt applications.
> > >
> > > You need a distribution that uses AT-SPI 2 (check your packages, any
> > > recent
> > > distro should do, this is part of standard GNOME).
> > >
> > > The source can be found here:
> > > https://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi
> > >
> > > The commit you should grab is: a213019e84732da7fea5162f8c79ee42b8a3b576,
> > > tagged
> > > v0.2.0.
> > >
> > > Or download the tar.gz from gitorious:
> > > https://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/qt-at-spi/commits/v0.2
> > > $ sha1sum qt-at-spi-qt-at-spi-v0.2.tar.gz
> > > 3831060a970939461326cdf1a21fbed3feff4d67
> > >
> > > The plugin for Qt 4 does not get loaded unless an environment
> > > variable gets
> > > set, so there should be no risk of anyone blowing up their system.
> > >
> > > In order to enable the plugin, export "QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1".
> > >
> > > For Qt 5 this is no longer needed.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Frederik
> > >
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