Re: [orca-list] Accessibility in Plasmas new notification system

Howdy Joanie,

oh this is pritty awsome! thanks for this information.
I will forward it to plasma-devel and kbroulik. fore sure they will  
like your answer!

mercy,

cheers chrys
Zitat von Joanmarie Diggs <[email protected]>:

> Hey Chrys.
>
> Regarding notifications, it should be pretty simple:
>
> 1. Give it ROLE_NOTIFICATION
> 2. Be sure it emits an object:state-changed:showing event
> 3. Be sure the displayed text is exposed via the accessible text
>    interface, either on the notification itself or in the accessible
>    children of the notification
>
> In theory, that should do it. Orca's looking for notifications that
> announce their appearance because, like you stated, they don't get focus.
>
> Hope this helps. BTW, I'm not subscribed to plasma-devel, so I'm not
> sure if my CCing them will be sufficient. If it's not, and if they need
> what I've stated above, please forward it to them.
>
> Thanks again for all your work on this!
> --joanie
>
> On 6/6/19 7:45 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Howdy Joanie,
>>
>> I just give an talk to kbroulik ( the creator of Plasmas new awsome
>> notification system).
>> see here:
>> https://blog.broulik.de/2019/05/next-generation-plasma-notifications/
>>
>> He told me that accessibility is not yet implemented. But I see
>> notifications are an very importaint part of an desktop system. Problem
>> for make it accessible is, that it currently doesnt get the focus at any
>> time.
>> Is there a best practice to implement this?
>> how does gnome do this? how is orca awaiting for incomming
>> notifications? do you know how we can make this happen?
>> Sorry for bother you with so basic stuff but you are the only one person
>> I know what can answer those issues properly.
>>
>> maybe a nice side notice for you (and others). We currently work on an
>> accessibility HIG for KDE.
>> https://hig.kde.org/accessibility/index.html
>> Still a WIP, but if someone wants to add some good content just contact me.
>> It should contain:
>> - Keyboard navigation
>> - Focus handling
>> - Set A11y Lables/ Descriptions/ roles
>> - howto test for good a11y
>>
>> cheers chrys
>>
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>>