Re: [orca-list] qt-at-spi 0.3 released

Fredric,
This is really great work indeed.
I guess this is going to solve a lot of issues with apps like kmail.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On 12/04/2012, Frederik Gladhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> after less than a month I'm happy to release qt-at-spi 0.3.0.
> This project keeps evolving and as you'd expect in an accessibility plugin
> that is completely hidden from the user, development is just about bugfixing
> and getting it in shape to play nice with other existing infrastructure.
> What made me happy this time around, and what triggered the short cycle
> since
> the last release is that I started getting more and more feedback from Orca
> users.
>
> Thanks to Joanie and Mike and others I could finally nail down some old
> issues
> in the tree view handling.
> As always this goes together with some fixes in Qt itself, so you might want
> to grab the 4.8 branch of Qt that will soon be 4.8.2 if you want to try the
> latest and greatest.
>
> The qt-at-spi bridge enables accessibility via screen readers for Qt
> applications on Linux.
>
> Changes since 0.2:
> * Send keyboard events only when someone is listening
> * Fix caching of tree and table items (Orca will no longer read outdated
> data)
> * Fix at least one crash and one off-by-one error when reading tree items
> * The usual internal cleanup and improvments that won't be noticable
>
> Dependencies: Qt 4.8.0 and newer.
>
> 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
>
> Download the tar.gz from gitorious:
> http://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/qt-at-spi/archive-tarball/v0.3.0
> sha256sum 2dab85affdb63af2b6c53c05cb837c267bf3bb0da6b47f6311193051f4121a9c
> md5sum 4f144304b4b3bcbf01b1ddd989aab671
> It doesn't give a file with file name extension, but extracting it should
> work
> fine.
>
> 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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