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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?"
That's an oxymoron if I ever saw one. Konqueror isn't accessible at all. It takes 30 seconds o open after you click the link. You are so much better off with IE under Wine it isn't funny.
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
Signature Pro version 1.13.2-3 release 83.5 beta3try7 after-breakfast edition
Gnome can SUCK IT now!
No, this isn't a Troll.
actually, this stuff is unbreakable, operates seamlessly on several (more than 3) dimensions, & offers unlimited energy to build on.
.controll just waved their 'magic' WAnD in front of lairIE/robbIE et AL, & 'stuff that matters' turned/weNT right into the nazis' payper liesense windows/gadgets, ala LeRegister.
.continually refresh the suppLIE of wannabe fraudulent phonIE monIE billyonerrors, as the # of those with felony grand larcenIE indictmeNTs pending, or already 'sentenced', & on 'probation', grows daily.
a real nightmare for the whoreabull payper liesense corepirate nazi softwar gangster stock markup fraud execrable/walking dead contingent.
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the greed/fear/ego based perpetraitors of the life0cide against the planet/population, will not be available to make reparations.
fauxking stuff that doesn't matter wannabes. sheesh.
robbIE rumoured to be corepirate nazi clone? (Score:mynuts won, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise still not working?)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @06:53AM (#7699395)
eXPerimeNT(r)oll, version won, of course.
the process has 'advanced' to transform bodIEs of regular folks into greed/fear/ego based puppets/ediots/droids. those slymebawls over at phonIE monIE
lookout bullow. there's nothing behind the ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup fraud 'curtain'. not even a little 'man'.
eyecon0meter: unprecedented evile hivists (Score:mynuts won, the sound of silence?)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @10:45AM (#7701157)
swarming for the ?last? badtoll?
as anticipated.
disbulleave if you want to/must, but do keep your shades handy.
unprecedented evile/corepirate nazis/softwar gangster thugs/hired goons (Score:mynuts won, a snow job is better than no job?)
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday December 12, @06:04AM (#7699252 [slashdot.org]) cloning each other/themselves?
they need to
no matter, as the unprecedented evile execrable's clones are greed/fear/ego based also, they are no match for the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue mandates..
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 :)
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.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Debian is Slow, Worse, Expensive
/lib/modules, as you are going to need it.
Open source may be good, but there is one example that sticks out like a sore thumb as a problem with open source. Debian gnu/Linux. It is offically the Worst Linux Distribution ever made.
First of all, Debian has the most out of date software packages of any major mainstream distros. Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1 (A version that really sucks). There are literally years that pass between each update of Debian.
Secondly, its a pain in the goatse to set up, first of all, you are forced to use Kernel 2.2, which is horribly hacked with "backports" to get any use on any modern machine (Read, made after 1999). Good luck memorizing all the *.ko files in
Configuring XFree86 is hell! If you don't have a Thick X11 orilley book, and a list of your horizontal sync values from your monitor's intruction manual (if you even have one), BOOM! There goes your monitor.
Even then, good luck getting anything over 640x480@16 colours.
The most common response to help questions on the Debian mailing list is "n00b, READ THE FUCKING MANUAL, you idiot, go back to WINDOWS XP if you can't learn to use dselect", true too, search the archives if you think I'm lying. Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!
Debians support for any decent hardware, including USB mice, scanners, Sound cards, heck even Serial devices struggle. If you can even get 80x25 text mode with PS/2 input devices you are really lucky.
Apt-get has many flaws. First of all it uses a non standard package format (the rest of the world uses RPM, deprecate the DEB format!), has broken respetories, and out of date software to install. All this combined with the kludgey dselect user interface make package management a nightmare.
And if you think I'm joking about this, find out why THOUSANDS of Debian users are switching to REAL distributions Debian is falling to pieces, if it is to survive any market share it will be through its superior forks (Xandros, Lindows, K/G-noppix) and unoffical package respetories.
Of course, while all this is going on, the only thing the Debian maintainers do is argue about politics on the mailing lists. The distribution decays while its creators argue over inane details like software licensing and the virtues of Marxism. Please! Spare me the political rhetoric and just give me a working distro!
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and I'm happily using distros such as Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo and Fedora. But I'm sick to death of zealots that push obsolete Distros on me EVERY FREAKING TIME linux is mentioned. I'm speaking from real world experiance here.
This isnt as big an accomplishment as it seems.
Apple and Microsoft are still leaps and bounds above Linux in terms of accessability mainly because of speach-to-text technology, OCR technology and better support for unique human input devices. These are ESSENTIAL for many people with vision imparements and mobility disabilities.
In terms of speach-to-text Windows & Apple have products like IBM via-vioce and/or Dragon naturally speaking for spech-to-text which can also serve as an alternative human input method for many tasks. What dose Linux and the open source world have that comes even remotly close to this?
OCR, frequenly used by persons with mobility disabilities as well vision imparements is also sadly lacking. Why isn't there any software for linux where I can smack a book or a page down on a scanner and have it translate it into editable characters? Or, alternativly put the ATK's text-to-speach functionality to use and READ it to me
Then there is the issue of human input devices and drivers for Linux... but driver issues and linux are far from new.
Give me text-to-speach, give me real ocr and give me more drivers for more unique human input devices and then I might begin to think Linux and the open-source world is becomming accessable.