Accessibility/Application Overview

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Accessibility in KDE Applications

Lists of applications and their accessibility status for screen readers:

Please mention the version tested and add information

Plasma Desktop

To get a more accessible menu switch to the classic menu and assign it a keyboard shortcut.

TODO: explain how to do that...

Kate

  • Implemented text interface for KDE 4.9
    • Improvements and somewhat working text interface for 4.9.1

Issues

  • Selection updates often wrong
  • Text added/removed signals not sent

KMail

  • Improved in KDE 4.8, status unknown

Konsole

KDE's terminal application.

  • Currently the shell does not implement an accessible text interface.

KCalc

  • Some unlabeled buttons
  • The main display is not accessible

QGit

  • Should give a basic list of git revisions at least

Dolphin

  • Main views will stop working with KDE 4.8 because of the new itemviews