{"id":1215,"date":"2005-09-23T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/09\/23\/accessibility_features_for_next_version_of_qt"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:58:20","slug":"accessibility_features_for_next_version_of_qt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/09\/23\/accessibility_features_for_next_version_of_qt","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility features for next version of Qt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My main programming interest is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolltech.com\/products\/qt\/index.html\">Qt<\/a>, which is a programming toolkit which allows the same program to be deployed on the Mac, Windows, and X-Window systems such as exist on Linux and Solaris. One common issue with just about every platform except Windows is its lack of accessibility for (in particular) visually impaired people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most (if not all?) blind people who use Windoze use the screen-reading software Jaws, which is known to have compatibility problems with some software including just about all web browsers except Internet Explorer, which is well-known for its security problems. As for the Mac and Linux, accessibility for these platforms is in its infancy, except for a text-based interface for Linux, although Apple is said to be bringing its accessibility up to scratch for the next installment of OS X (due out next year) in order to chase US government grants. Trouble is, most popular Linux software is graphical, based on any number of interface toolkits: the old ones use XView or Motif, the newer ones GTK+ or Qt, a few use their own toolkits. This doesn&#39;t make it easy for people writing accessibility software; in fact, it may make the writing of general accessibility software for Unix impossible.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#39;s welcome that Trolltech, the company behind Qt, have got round to developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolltech.com\/newsroom\/announcements\/00000176.html\">their own accessibility features<\/a> for the next release of Qt, which is a fantastic toolkit, and it makes developing windowed software so much easier, which of course, makes for better programs. I think it is about time visually impaired people had access, like the rest of us, to virus-free and cracker-free computing on decent and freely available operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My main programming interest is Qt, which is a programming toolkit which allows the same program to be deployed on the Mac, Windows, and X-Window systems such as exist on Linux and Solaris. One&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-jB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42798,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/42798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}