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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
# As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
# Or export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
kcalc &
accerciser &

The application accerciser has the title Accerciser Accessibility Explorer. kcalc should appear in the application accerciser, in the left hand side tree view. If kcalc does not appear, from the accerciser application's main menu > View > Refresh Registry.

Accessibility applications

Technical Information For Application Developers

Read the KDE Human Interface Guidelines https://develop.kde.org/hig/accessibility/

Community Documentation

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
Also ask on the IRC channel #kde-accessibility on Libera Chat or #kde-accessibility on Matrix https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-accessibility:kde.org
https://help.gnome.org/users/accerciser/stable/index.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/accerciser
https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi

Resources from GTK and GNOME that can be useful for understanding accessibility for desktop apps:

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 == Quickstart ==
-E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10.
+E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10:
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 If kcalc does not appear, from the accerciser application's main menu > View > Refresh Registry.
-== User Documentation ==
+== Accessibility applications ==
-You can find user documentation on UserBase:
+* https://apps.kde.org/categories/utilities/#accessibility
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmag
-* https://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool
-* https://userbase.kde.org/KMag
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmouth
-* 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
+Read the KDE Human Interface Guidelines https://develop.kde.org/hig/accessibility/
-For technical information on how to make your application accessible please see the following TechBase pages:
+== Community Documentation ==
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility
+* https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Text-To-Speech
+* Also ask on the IRC channel #kde-accessibility on [https://libera.chat Libera Chat] or #kde-accessibility on Matrix https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-accessibility:kde.org
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/HCI/Checklists
+* https://help.gnome.org/users/accerciser/stable/index.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/accerciser
+* https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi
-== Community Documentation ==
-* http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
+Resources from GTK and GNOME that can be useful for understanding accessibility for desktop apps:
-* http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/06/18/qt-5-accessibility-apis/
-* see also: [[Accessibility/qt-atspi|Qt AT-SPI 2 Bridge]]
-* Also ask on [irc://irc.freenode.net/#kde-accessibility #kde-accessibility] on [https://libera.chat Libera Chat]
-== Historic ==
+* [https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/section-accessibility.html GTK Accessibility Entrypoint Documentation]
+* [https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved/QuickStart GNOME Accessibility Quick Start Guide]
+* [https://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnome-designers-and-developers/ Painless Accessibility Tips for GNOME Designers and Developers]
+* [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK/Accessibility Status of Accessibility in GNOME]
+* [https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/guidelines/accessibility.html GNOME Accessibility Guidelines]
+* [https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/guidelines/accessibility/coding-guidelines.html GNOME Coding Guidelines to Support Accessibility]