Re: Accessibility with screen readers

Hi,

KDE includes Kwan, which seems to provide useful customizations for 
low-vision people and magnification (negative colors, etc).

With screen readers, it is a work in progress. The main blockers are 
listed here:
https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/249/

Qt5 is mostly accessible thanks to a high work from the Qt foundation. 
the work listed above is driven by a volunteer developer and thanks to him.

Given the GTK debates, we are working on the capability to fund how to 
make KDE fully accessible. But it will be a long work about 1,5 year, to 
get what we hope. We need, to start, a foundation validation for some of 
the methods we cant to use, and its support for funding. So I would say 
that KDE accessibility makes part of the work, but seems still far from 
being a reality today.

regards

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Le 22/01/2020 à 02:29, Devin Prater a écrit :
> Hi all. I came across this article 
> <https://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn/2018/10/14/screen-reader-accessibility-for-the-plasma-desktop/> last 
> night, and decided to join this list. I’m curious as to how 
> accessibility in KDE has come along since 2018? In the article, 
> mentioned was “making Plasma a joy to use with a screen reader.” 
> Having a desktop interface that is a joy to use is something I would 
> give much for. I am not a developer, I’m more of a writer or 
> proofreader, and can test software if needed and provide feedback and 
> suggestions.
>
> Thanks for any replies.