[Kde-accessibility] KDE and Rrca

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi all. I am running an Arch Linux box, with Gnome and KDE. I
installed KDE, because my research leads me to believe that the Orca
screenreader works with it. I did set the qt_accessibility variable to
one, and rebooted. I selected KDE from the session list, but ... no
speech. What do I need to do next?

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Post by Hunter Jozwiak
Hi all. I am running an Arch Linux box, with Gnome and KDE. I
installed KDE, because my research leads me to believe that the Orca
screenreader works with it. I did set the qt_accessibility variable to
one, and rebooted. I selected KDE from the session list, but ... no
speech. What do I need to do next?

Hi, one minor thing: make sure the variable is all upper case, otherwise it
will not work.

In general, in a KDE session you would have to start Orca explicitly, it won't
run automatically I think.
Also note that KDE accessibility is still lacking currently, I expect Plasma
Next, the next big iteration of the desktop to be much better in that regard.

I would recommend as a first step to test KDE applications in a session where
you have working accessibility.

Greetings,
Frederik

[Rob Whyte]

Hi,
another option may be if you are interested is to try Vinux which is an
Ubuntu based distribution www.vinuxproject.org

Good luck
Rob

Post by Frederik Gladhorn

Post by Hunter Jozwiak
Hi all. I am running an Arch Linux box, with Gnome and KDE. I
installed KDE, because my research leads me to believe that the Orca
screenreader works with it. I did set the qt_accessibility variable to
one, and rebooted. I selected KDE from the session list, but ... no
speech. What do I need to do next?

Hi, one minor thing: make sure the variable is all upper case, otherwise it
will not work.
In general, in a KDE session you would have to start Orca explicitly, it won't
run automatically I think.
Also note that KDE accessibility is still lacking currently, I expect Plasma
Next, the next big iteration of the desktop to be much better in that regard.
I would recommend as a first step to test KDE applications in a session where
you have working accessibility.
Greetings,
Frederik
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