Meeting Notes

for generic stuff like ignoring invisible elements and propagating action names for icon-only buttons
- Carl has a WIP patch for the former
- set better defaults when A11y is enabled and not manually overwritten
there's not fundamental objection from Qt to such changes, so we should try to do that first before doing app-level workarounds
a11y attached properties incur extra cost

screen readers only see things that are focusable, not the entire AT-SPI tree
- this also means only actions but not labels are read out
focus inside list items is also tricky
Firefox uses a different kind of key navigation when the screen reader is on, which makes a lot more things available such as links inside a text body
QWidget::buddy helps with this, but doesn't exist for QML
- could be done in QML by binding the label text to a11y name or description
Kirigrami FormLayout and MobileForms cover some of that
can we automatically test for this?
- every element in the tab order should have a name
- can we check for complete tab order graphs?
text fields interrupt tab order
- should we set a dedicated shortcut for this?
- should tab entry be disabled so tab works focus changes?
- shift-tab works to tab out backwards
row selection vs cell selection in widget list/table/tree views
- current (focus) highlighting is hardly visible compared to selection highlighting
- possible enable more keyboard navigation here when the screen reader is on
- QAccessible::isActive gives us API for checking that

there's fregl's "Randamizer" tool in libqaccessibilityclient, which is a very bare-bone version of accesserizer
the web inspectors have this built in:
- AT-SPI tree access
- color contrast checks
kwin color blindness effect: exists from Randa 2017 (?) but not integrated in Kwin upstream
could we built a color contrast checks?
- do we need this for the style, or are custom colors the bigger problems?
- should we have a more expanded color palette/color API that gives you more colors which are optimized for contrast? Android apparently has something similar