Re: [Kde-accessibility] KDE-accessibility/Qt AT-SPI

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Dan:

You can learn more about the Orca screen reader and magnifier at 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca.  I would love to grow the Orca developer 
community, so please let me know what questions you may have.

Will

Dan Miner wrote:
> I'm glad to hear that a common ground appears to be coming out the 
> work.  I'm becoming very interested in accessibility on a personal front 
> because I'm nearing the end of my vision.  Is there some resources you 
> could mention for a developer starting out on building and eventual coding?
>
> I'm a software developer myself and I'm starting to find serious need 
> for screen magnification and reading now.  Last time I tried, I couldn't 
> get the latest code to ever build and then no clues even how to get 
> stuff submitted.
>
>     Regards,
>        Dan
>
>
> Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > thanks a lot for offering to contribute to KDE Accessibility.
> >
> > As you already wrote, Qt had an accessibility framework that can be used to 
> > make Qt and KDE applications accessible with Orca or other assistive 
> > technologies. One Trolltech developer (Harald Fernengel) even wrote a D-Bus 
> > interface for it:
> > http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDBusBridge
> >
> > See also:
> > http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/IAPoke
> > http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDasher
> >
> > This interface could be used by Orca. But it would need to be completed and 
> > bug-fixed to achieve the full results, and in the meantime, it has become clear 
> > Gnome is now also moving to D-Bus for their accessibility framework.
> >
> > It would make a lot of sense to rework Harald's code to use the same D-Bus 
> > interfaces as Gnome.
> >
> > The timing is very good to get involved now, since it has become clear at last 
> > that a common approach with Gnome is possible. Important decisions about the 
> > Free Software accessibility architecture have been made (namely, Gnome's D-Bus 
> > move).
> >
> > Gunnar and I spent a lot of time on KDE Accessibility in the past, but we are 
> > now at a point where we simply do not have the time any more to continue with 
> > this very important work. But I promise to help you as much as I can (by 
> > answering questions and maybe by helping with the testing) if you wish to 
> > continue with the work started by Harald, Gunnar and myself.
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> >
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