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KDE Gains Full Accessibility Support

Posted by michael on from the great-governmental-selling-point dept.

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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  1. This may prove useful to ordinary people as well by sufehmi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For example, Windows' accessibility features has saved me many times when the mouse just doesn't want to work for various reason. It enable me to use the numpad to simulate the mouse, and troubleshoot the problem - instead of reinstalling it.

    I welcome this addition to KDE even more for that reason.

  2. I'll never get a date now! by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 5, Funny

    2.6.0, 3.2 and R.o.T.K. all about the same time?!

    Where will I ever find the time to get a life!

  3. Re:This may prove useful to ordinary people as wel by hviezda14 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is already included in X server (on which KDE is running), if you press SHIFT+NumLock, you can navigate mouse cursor with arrows on numpad.

  4. From a user: Thank you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I lost most of the use of my fingers and 40 percent of my vision in a chemical accident 15 years ago. I am so glad to see linux taking steps to make things more usable for people like me. I truly feel linux will soon take the lead in accessibility (not to mention stability and performance) from Microsoft very soon. Thank you linux hackers!

    --Berry