KDE Gains Full Accessibility Support

kandalf writes "Together with some other interesting news about making KDE and Gtk apps interoperable as well as porting OpenOffice to Qt/KDE, KDE gained accessibility support through the ATK interface from Sun with Qt - so KDE 3.2 will be 'accessibility ready' for the end user once coming out in January. Got the dot?"

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And hopefully

[justsomebody]

They will adopt desktop settings at freedesktop.org too and there will be one control panel to maintain both KDE and Gnome. Until then I'll be avoiding KDE.

I just don't want to tweak every single feature

Please

[palad1]

Pressing ALT-F , Q, Enter : 1 second Pressing Shift num + UP, UP, Up, UP, DOWN, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, SPACE to open the file menu, then DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, space for 'quit' ... 15 seconds, 45 swearing words... This ain't the same level of functionnality :)

Re:Without intention to TROLL..

[GigsVT]

So, if I am a partially deaf or blind kernel developer, why should I have to wait for fucntionaility everyone else already has?

Maybe because you are partially deaf or blind? You'll never have the functionality everyone else has.

It's irrational to think that someone in a tiny minority should be able to dictate how the majority behaves.

If that were true, then cars should accomodate both midgets and huge basketball players. They generally don't, not very well at least.

People with special needs have to pay more, because special needs cost more.

In this case, it's a little different since it's open source software, and people are free to work on whatever floats their boat. I do think that the desktop environments should try to get the level of GUI consistancy that Windows has, with regard to keyboard shortcuts though. That would be the biggest accessibility feature.