{"id":6584,"date":"2017-09-13T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2017-09-13T07:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T07:07:18","slug":"accessibility-at-randa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/accessibility-at-randa\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility at Randa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Randa KDE meeting it&#8217;s all about Accessibility: a big effort has been concentrated around two very intertwined things: keyboard navigation and screen reader support.<br \/>\n(The fundraising campaign is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/fundraisers\/randameetings2017\/\">going on<\/a>)<br \/>\nAs a first taste, in Plasma 5.11 KRunner will be completely accessible (unfortunately until now screen readers didn&#8217;t work at all with it), which is important as is a completely keyboard-focused UI to do things, therefore potentially more user friendly towards vision impaired people.<br \/>\nOrca will be able to read out loud what query has been entered and the currently focused entry, that is what will happen if the user presses the Enter key.<br \/>\nHere it is a screencast of KRunner running with Orca navigating trough the list of result entries.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WE1IDapKdJ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Randa KDE meeting it&#8217;s all about Accessibility: a big effort has been concentrated around two very intertwined things: keyboard navigation and screen reader support. (The fundraising campaign is still going on) As a first taste, in Plasma 5.11 KRunner will be completely accessible (unfortunately until now screen readers didn&#8217;t work at all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[169,2,168,7,22],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-accessibility","tag-kde","tag-krunner","tag-plasma","tag-randa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}