hi all I've just read christian's fedora workstation update article. This got me thinking. I would like to, if possible, have by fedora 24, at least a basic level of functioning accessibility for xdg-app compliant applications. I'll be happy to work with upstream or fedora developers directly and do as much work as I can to improve this. I seem to recall some talk about this on the mailing list to the equivalent of there needs to be some redesign of the accessibility stack to improve accessibility. While I believe this is extremely important, I think it is more important to get accessibility working with the apps first, and then focus on the redesign, possibly to be ready by f25 or f26? I'm not an accessibility developer in the sense that I write code. I am, however, a passionate open source advocate despite my occasional rants and my long silences as I try to juggle accessibility improvements for all the major desktops on my own, gnome, mate, cinnamon. Michael katanzaro and bastian nosira help me out a lot on the gnome end, but no one else on those other desktops does so I'm left to file the bugs and so on. i have not actually tested xdg compliant apps. Can someone with vision attempt this with orca, magnifier, onscreen keyboard, etc? If we're going to do this, we need to do it right so that accessibility support is equal among the various tools. Thanks Kendell clark
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:07 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
hi all I've just read christian's fedora workstation update article. This got me thinking. I would like to, if possible, have by fedora 24, at least a basic level of functioning accessibility for xdg-app compliant applications.
xdg-app by itself should not really affect the accessibility code. Although it may need some minor tweaks, as I have not tested it.
However, if you want to run apps that are sandboxed then things are much trickier. The accessibility dbus APIs are completely unsafe and lets any app fully control any other app. I have no idea whatsoever how hard it would be to fix this, or how the fix would look.
It's useful to clarify that there is no conceptual problem. Accessibility tools like screenreaders will run unsandboxed, and sandboxed applications only need to export information out to the accessibility tools.
The problem is simply that the current accessibility framework isn't necessarily set up to separate out the operations that an application needs from the operations that an AT needs.
- Owen
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On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:07 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
hi all I've just read christian's fedora workstation update article. This got me thinking. I would like to, if possible, have by fedora 24, at least a basic level of functioning accessibility for xdg-app compliant applications.
xdg-app by itself should not really affect the accessibility code. Although it may need some minor tweaks, as I have not tested it.
However, if you want to run apps that are sandboxed then things are much trickier. The accessibility dbus APIs are completely unsafe and lets any app fully control any other app. I have no idea whatsoever how hard it would be to fix this, or how the fix would look. -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
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