Accessibility

Help Konqi improve KDE's accessibility!

KDE Accessibility Project

Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.

Quickstart

E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10.

sudo apt install kcalc accerciser accerciser & As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/ export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1

1. Or export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1

kcalc &

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 Libera Chat