Accessibility: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:16, 17 December 2022

Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.

E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10.

sudo apt install kcalc accerciser accerciser & As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/ export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1

kcalc &

You can find user documentation on UserBase:

You can find some details on individual Accessibility apps on the application pages.

For technical information on how to make your application accessible please see the following TechBase pages:

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 Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.
-=== User Documentation ===
+== Quickstart ==
+E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10.
+sudo apt install kcalc accerciser
+accerciser &
+As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
+export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
+# Or export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
+kcalc &
+== User Documentation ==
 You can find user documentation on UserBase:
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 * https://userbase.kde.org/Simon (not part of the KDE Accessibility module)
-=== Application Pages ===
+== Application Pages ==
 You can find some details on individual Accessibility apps on the application pages.
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 * https://simon.kde.org/
-=== Technical Information For Application Developers ===
+== Technical Information For Application Developers ==
 Read KDE's Human Interface Guidelines https://hig.kde.org/accessibility/index.html
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 * http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/HCI/Checklists
-=== Community Documentation ===
+== Community Documentation ==
 * http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
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 * Also ask on [irc://irc.freenode.net/#kde-accessibility #kde-accessibility] on [https://libera.chat Libera Chat]
-=== Historic ===
+== Historic ==
-Most of the above content is historic too as it's still about kdelibs4 and Qt4 based software. We're currently in the process of porting this software to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt5.