Unity 2D Accessibility, Testers Welcome

Hi,

lately Florian and Didier did some nice work to get the patches needed for a 
working Qt at-spi2 accessibility ready for Ubuntu. It's also exciting since 
they are making Unity-Qt accessible - yes that is the first QML app that tests 
our changes for Qt.

While I personally don't care which distro anyone runs, right now this is a 
nice chance to test accessibility with KDE apps without any hastle.

So if you're interested to find out where we stand, check it out :)
With the setup described below you should be up and running in no time.

Cheers
Frederik



PS: 
If anyone else want to manually get this up and running:
My recommendation is at the moment to grab Qt 4.8 master and the bridge from 
gitorious. https://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi

https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/accessibility contains the changes needed for QML 
(branch 4.8-a11y) if you want to play with that.


Fredag 24. juni 2011 14.57.24 skrev ext Florian Boucault :
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to the fantastic work of Frederik Gladhorn, Qt and QML are
> accessible on Linux.
> Our very own awesome Didier Roche packaged it and pushed it in Oneiric
> and even blogged about it (see [1])!
> This work is now being put to use to make Unity 2D accessible. A very
> first prototype is available, though with major bugs. I would love to
> get as much feedback as possible about it. To that end I published a
> version of Unity 2D in a PPA for Natty at [2].
> 
> I put together a script (install_accessible_unity_2d.sh in attachment)
> that installs everything necessary so that when you log back in the
> Unity 2D session accessibility should work. Be careful, it does the
> following:
> - install accessibility-enabled Qt 4.7.3 and Unity 2D from the PPA
> - activate AT-SPI 2
> - activate accessibility in Qt system-wide by adding environment
> variables to /etc/environment
> 
> It is for Natty only.
> I have not had the opportunity to try this script on a fresh Natty so
> please let me know if something goes wrong or if you can think of an
> improvement.
> 
> Thank you for reporting anything that does not work well in Unity 2D
> accessibility wise directly to me. For bugs in other Qt applications
> please report bugs against the qt package with the tag 'a11y'.
> 
> Known bugs are:
> - crash when going into the contextual menu of an item in the launcher
> - when hidden the launcher needs Alt-F1 twice to show
> - in the panel, switching from a menu to another gives the focus briefly
> to the focused application
> - in the panel, scrubbing from the app menu to the indicators is not
> implemented
> - only the search field is accessible in the dash
> 
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Florian
> 
> [1] http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Accessible-Qt-now-in-Oneiric!
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~unity-2d-team/+archive/accessibility

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#!/bin/sh

# Install accessibility-enabled Qt 4.7.3 and Unity 2D
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-2d-team/accessibility
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install unity-2d

# Activate AT-SPI 2
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-dbus --type bool true
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-corba --type bool false

# Activate accessibility in Qt system-wide
echo GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge | sudo tee --append /etc/environment
echo QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 | sudo tee --append /etc/environment