Hi Thomas! Sorry for my late reply. The proper list for KDE Accessibility is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Thomas Ward, Sunday, 5. June 2005 07:03] > Hi list, > I realise this is not specifically Gnome related, but since the Gnome > access and KDE access teams are working somewhat together Yes, we are indeed working together. > I am interested in what accessibility is like on the new KDE 3.4 > desktop. It is my understanding there are some very nice accessibility > features coming our way from KDE 3.4. KDE 3.4 has indeed a lot of accessibility improvements, as described in the KDE 3.4 release announcement: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.php A list of the accessibility features in KDE 3.4: * The KDE Text-To-Speech system (ktts) integrated into the PDF reader KPDF, the webbrowser Konqueror, the text editor Kate. * The option to read out notifications from all KDE applications via ktts * KSayIt, a tool for reading out longer texts * KMouth, a tool for people who have lost their voice * An optical bell for deaf people * KMousetool, an application for people whom it hurts to click with the mouse * Support for mouse gestures in all KDE applications * KMag, a simple screen magnifier (no fullscreen magnification yet, but some other modes not supported by Gnopernicus). This applications will be vastly improved for KDE 3.5 or KDE 4 to support all magnification features currently available only in Windows screen magnifiers. * A scalable monochrome icon set (complete, i.e. containing all KDE icons) * The icon set can be automatically adapted to fit the current colour scheme (at run-time). * This also works with user-defined colour schemes. * Improved predefined high contrast colour schemes (avoiding large white areas for selected text, as it is in GNOME and formerly in KDE) * A widget style that works well with high-contrast dark-background styles * The option to increase window borders * Support for AccessX keyboard features and gestures * Mouse emulation via keyboard * A keyboard status applet More improvements will come with KDE 3.5, of course. Screen reader support will come with KDE 4. > I am asking because Mandriva Club > members just were notified Mandriva is making KDE 3.4 packages for > Mandriva 2005 users, and wonder if the upgrade from KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4 > is worth it from an accessibility standpoint. Thanks. For partially sighted people, the it is definately very good to upgrade. Olaf _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
