Accessibility
KDE Accessibility Project
Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.
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:
- https://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility
- https://userbase.kde.org/KMag
- https://userbase.kde.org/KMouseTool
- https://userbase.kde.org/KMouth
- https://userbase.kde.org/Jovie
- https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility
- https://userbase.kde.org/Simon (not part of the KDE Accessibility module)
Application Pages
You can find some details on individual Accessibility apps on the application pages.
- https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmag/
- https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmousetool/
- https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmouth/
- https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/jovie/
- https://simon.kde.org/
Technical Information For Application Developers
Read KDE's Human Interface Guidelines https://hig.kde.org/accessibility/index.html
For technical information on how to make your application accessible please see the following TechBase pages:
- http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility
- http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Text-To-Speech
- http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/HCI/Checklists
Community Documentation
- http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
- http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/06/18/qt-5-accessibility-apis/
- see also: Qt AT-SPI 2 Bridge
- Also ask on #kde-accessibility on Libera Chat