Bug#707196: Activate software speech synthesiser in KDE too (for desktop=kde installs)?
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> >From what I understand, kde offers ktts and jovie. I don't know that
> the combination constitutes a full screen reader solution though and it
> may not be feasible to extend espeakup into kde.
The plan, so far as I understand it, was ultimately to use Orca to make KDE
accessible. However, this is still very much work in progress on the KDE side,
with support for AT-SPI now integrated into QT.
I don't think it would be a good idea to support it as an installer option
until it's actually usable. I'm not sufficiently aware of the current status
to know when this is likely to happen, other than that the AT-SPI support was
merged into QT 5, to which KDE will be upgraded. (Prior to QT 5, you need to
install the qt-at-spi package and set an environment variable.) I don't know
how much work needs to be done to make the desktop compatible with QT
accessibility interfaces and hence with AT-SPI.
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