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.

Accessibility applications

• https://apps.kde.org/categories/utilities/#accessibility
• https://apps.kde.org/kmag
• https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool
• https://apps.kde.org/kmouth
• https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility

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

• 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