Update on Assistive Technologies for Qt4

    By: Harald Fernengel
    2004
    14
    Oct
    Accessibility

    A new snapshot of the cspi-dbus bridge has been released. Together with the Qt 4 D-BUS bindings, it is now possible to write KDE assistive technologies that transparently interact with Qt/KDE applications as well as GTK/GNOME applications.

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    Thu, 2004/10/14 - 7:00am — KTROLL (not verified)
    Score: 0

    I love transparency :)

    > that transparently interact with Qt/KDE applications as well as
    > GTK/GNOME applications.

    Now someone must write GTK/GNOME applications that transparently interact with other GTK/GNOME applications :)

    /me hides

    Thu, 2004/10/14 - 7:00am — me (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Re: I love transparency :)

    lol, good one!

    have a nice day everyone!

    Thu, 2004/10/14 - 7:00am — Henrik (not verified)
    Score: 0

    KDM Accessibility

    Does KDM have the ability to launch access features at this point? It can be very useful, because some people may have a difficult time actually logging in without their specific assistive technology. I believe the new GDM has this support.

    Thu, 2004/10/14 - 7:00am — Andre Somers (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Work to be done...

    If this is going to be used, there is work to be done to make it actually usable I think. Just look at the third screenshot provided (Kicker; http://trolls.troll.no/~harald/accessibility/accessibility3.png). A whole lot of "no description" labels that make it impossible to actually distinguish anything usefull. I think it will be a lot of work before each and every application can provide usefull information via such an interface.