Re: [orca-list] Qt 5 accessibility

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi peter,
Confirmed as described.
However I found that if you press alt+downArrow in a combobox, orca read 
the content correctly.

On 05/30/2014 07:00 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I have briefly tested transmission-qt with QT 5.3 on arch linux today.
> I am not happy to report that:
> - comboboxes, sliders appear to be still broken ei.e. not correctly
> firing value change events.
> I am having issues navigating in edit fields (note this appears to be
> working better with QT4).
>
> Perhaps there are under the hoodstability and other fixes but I am
> afraid real accessibility testing by the potential users is either not
> taken into considerations while working on this or it's being put aside
> for the consideration to the future updates.
>
> Other things which I can't say are QT5 issues or might be app specific
> issues is that flat review does not work and some of the controls don't
> convey its role and state.
> I have studied no implementation details I have observed all this by
> running orca and my guess work as I can't see at all.
>
> I am looking forward to some real exciting developments on this front.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 20.05.2014 15:35, 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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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza