Hello, As discussed at DebConf [1,2,3], we would like to make the accessibility stack enabled by default, so that all a user who needs it has to do is just to start orca (while at the moment she has to find an option in the control panel, and logout/login again, thus closing all running applications...).
For Qt4, this is implemented in the qt-at-spi package, which has been developped mostly between 2009 and 2013. There doesn't seem to be much activity there since early 2013. For Qt5, this is implemented directly in the Qt core, and seems to be actively maintained and improved. So it seems safer to enable accessibility in Qt5 than in Qt4, but for now it seems to me that most Debian applications are still using Qt4, so people will mostly need Qt4 accessibility. Considering that we are just at the beginning of the Stretch development, perhaps we can try to enable accessibility by default in both Qt4 and Qt5, see how well this goes, and at worse not enable it by default for Qt4 if the possibly-revealed bugs become really not solvable? The way I see it is simply by making the at-spi2-core package define QT_ACCESSIBILITY (for Qt4) and QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON (for Qt5) to 1 from a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. Is it OK with Qt people? Samuel [1] https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/290/thanks-for-maintaining-a-desktop-environment-but-is-it-accessible/ [2] http://brl.thefreecat.org/2015-08-22-debconf.pdf [3] http://brl.thefreecat.org/2015-08-22-debconf.txt
