Accessibility

Help Konqi improve KDE's accessibility!

KDE Accessibility Project

Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.

User Documentation

You can find user documentation on UserBase:

• https://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility
• https://userbase.kde.org/KMag
• https://userbase.kde.org/KMouseTool
• https://userbase.kde.org/KMouth
• https://userbase.kde.org/Jovie
• https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility
• https://userbase.kde.org/Simon (not part of the KDE Accessibility module)

Application Pages

You can find some details on individual Accessibility apps on the application pages.

• https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmag/
• https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmousetool/
• https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmouth/
• https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/jovie/
• https://simon.kde.org/

Technical Information For Application Developers

Read KDE's Human Interface Guidelines https://hig.kde.org/accessibility/index.html

For technical information on how to make your application accessible please see the following TechBase pages:

• http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility
• http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Text-To-Speech
• http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/HCI/Checklists

Community Documentation

• http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
• http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/06/18/qt-5-accessibility-apis/
• see also: Qt AT-SPI 2 Bridge
• Also ask on #kde-accessibility on Freenode

Historic

Most of the above content is historic too as it's still about kdelibs4 and Qt4 based software. We're currently in the process of porting this software to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt5.