From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2002-11-05 16:54:50
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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:01, Richard Bown wrote: > Can KDE/Qt help with accessibility? Hard to tell. Nothing too serious at the moment I'm afraid.=20 http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/keyfeatures30.html "Accessibility=20 Accessibility means making software usable and accessible to a wide range o= f=20 users, including those with disabilities. In Qt 3.0, most widgets provide=20 accessibility information for assistive tools that can be used by a wide=20 range of disabled users. Qt standard widgets like buttons or range controls= =20 are fully supported. Support for complex widgets, like e.g. QListView, is i= n=20 development. Existing applications that make use of standard widgets will=20 become accessible just by using Qt 3.0.=20 Qt uses the Active Accessibility infrastructure on Windows, and needs the M= SAA=20 SDK, which is part of most platform SDKs. With improving standardization of= =20 accessibility on other platforms, Qt will support assistive technologies on= =20 other systems, too. " Now that's all nice and dandy but it doesn't say anything about what this=20 "accessibility information" is, which platforms it works with, etc... Anywa= y,=20 it will be there at some point, yes. =2D-=20 Guillaume http://www.telegraph-road.org |