Accessibility

Help Konqi improve KDE's 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
# 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.

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