a11y

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:56:28AM -0500, Michael Stemle wrote:
>    I wouldn't even know where to begin on accessibility, which makes me
>    wonder if I'm alone or if others would also be similarly lost. What types
>    of things would this involve?

At the boot screen for a live install you can press F5 (I think) and
get a selection of what sort of accessibility to turn on. In KDE 3
times these overrode various settings to change the theme to be high
contrast or have kmag by default or an onscreen keyboard.  These days
we also have qt-at-spi which together with Orca should be possible to
be used to control the whole desktop for blind users or those who
can't use a mouse or keyboard.  Something could also be done with
Simon to have a profile which runs that with a sensible setup so it
can control the desktop.  TheMuso is probably the chap to talk to on
the Ubuntu side and jpwhiting may be a useful chap on the KDE side.

Jonathan