On tirsdag 25. juli 2017 14.47.44 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 25 de juliol de 2017, a les 13:25:39 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va > > escriure: > > libqaccessibilityclient is now in kdereview. It's in a git repo > > called libkdeaccessibilityclient but we filed a sysadmin request to > > rename it. > > > > We just released 0.2.0 in unstable (for some reason 0.1.1 was released > > in stable some years ago). > > What's your target? Frameworks? KDE Applications? Independent release?
It's closest to being a framework, considering that it's a tiny helper lib. > > > It seems to have autotests but they are not run by either of these > ctest > make check > make test Will look into that, thanks for the feedback! Cheers, Frederik > > > > > AccessibleObject seems like a dumping group, having functions like > double maximumValue() const; > and > QString imageDescription() const; > that if you read the description seems to me like they apply to "different > types" of objects. Is it because it is mimic-ing the ATSPI API? Is there a > way to have these things more split so they are grouped together more > logically? > > > > Interfaces supportedInterfaces() const; > documentation is wrong, it says "return QStringList" > > > Can we remove the commented functions, i.e. managesDescendants, isRequired, > etc.? > > > Thanks for pushing this forward :) > > > Cheers, > Albert > > > What is it? > > ======== > > Since it's hard to grasp all the bits related to accessibility, I'll try > > to > > explain what the lib is for. > > Most of the stack is part of Qt 5, so nothing to worry about, that's the > > part that lets applications expose their UI over DBus for AT-SPI, so they > > work nicely with assisitve tools (e.g. Orca). In accessibility language, > > the applications act as "servers" and the screen reader for example is a > > client. > > > > This library is for writing clients, so applications that are assistive, > > such as screen readers. It currently has two users: KMag and Simon. > > KMag can use it to follow the focus (e.g. when editing text, it can > > automatically magnify the part of the document where the cursor is. > > > > For Simon Listens, the use is to be able to let the user trigger menus and > > buttons by voice input.
