Hi all,

this message is especially for Frederik. As I promised, this is the message I 
sent to Heikkinen Jani (the Qt release manager) some time ago with a detailed 
report of Qt Creator accessibility issues and the report of a critical 
accessibility issue that affects the Qt installer.

Cheers

Vincenzo.

Inizio messaggio inoltrato:

> Oggetto: Qt 5.2 and accessibility issues on Mac OS X
> Data: 08 marzo 2014 12:55:12 CET
> A: Heikkinen Jani <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi Jani,
> 
> I am Vincenzo Rubano, an italian blind computer science blind student.
> I wrote to you some time ago to let you know that there were some important 
> accessibility issues in QT Creator and the QT installer (Mac OS X versions). 
> You suggested me reporting these issues using the bug tracker, but the 
> registration form is not accessible due to the presence of a visual captcha.
> 
> I’m going to report to you all the details about the issues I found and I 
> hope that they will be fixed soon, so that I can start using QT (together 
> with other blind people that may want to do so).
> 
> Some details about my setup:
> I experienced the issues bot with a Macbook Air 13 “ 2013 with an I7 
> processor and 8 gb ram and a macbook pro 15 “ late 2010 with an I7 processor 
> and 4 gb RAM. Both machines are running Mac OS X 10.9.2. I’ve used QT Creator 
> 3.0.1 and QT 5.2.1. I made sure that there weren’t apps running in the 
> background consuming significant resources when I experienced these issues.
> 
> Let’s start with the installer issues:
> I experienced these issues both with the onLine and the ofLine QT installer 
> for Mac OS X.
> The problem is that, after opening the installer application, the first 
> installation window that appears is not accessible using Voiceover. The 
> screen reader, in fact, can only see:
> - The standard buttons to close and resize the window;
> - The title of the window;
> - An “unknown” element that I can interact with.
> After interacting with the unknown element, though, Voiceover tells me that 
> it doesn’t contain anything. Due to this, I am not able to install QT using 
> the installer.
> 
> Regarding QT Creator:
> Generally speaking, the program is a bit unresponsive with Voiceover (there 
> are delays from executing a command and getting feedback from Voiceover).
> However, the worst issue is in the project creation window that you can open 
> by pressing cmd+n. That window is so unresponsive with Voiceover that between 
> executing a command and getting some feedback from Voiceover you could have 
> to wait up to 5/7 seconds (starting from a minimum of 1/2 seconds).
> In addition to this, in the project creation window, Voiceover sees some 
> different groups (e.g. “projects”, “applications”, “libraries”, “other 
> project”, “Non-QT project”). Since they are groups, I can suppose that 
> interacting with them I should see something inside of them; but this is not 
> true. If I interact with these groups Voiceover tells me that they are empty.
> Finally, in the project creation window, Voiceover sees a combo box that 
> (from what I understood) should allow me to select some different template 
> categories to show up in the window. The value of the combo is “all 
> templates” but Voiceover tells me that I cannot adjust the value of the combo.
> 
> There might be other accessibility issues in QT Creator and the QT Framework; 
> unfortunately I am not able to investigate further and report them to you 
> until I can create a QT Application by taking advantage (or trying to) of the 
> QT Creator features.
> 
> Let me know if you need further details or any additional information. I’m 
> available to perform any additional test if needed as well as testing 
> eventual patches/build versions that could fix these issues.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vincenzo.

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