On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > libqaccessibilityclient is now in kdereview. It's in a git repo > called libkdeaccessibilityclient but we filed a sysadmin request to > rename it.
That request has since been actioned. > > We just released 0.2.0 in unstable (for some reason 0.1.1 was released > in stable some years ago). > > 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. Cheers, Ben