#accesskit — Public Fediverse posts
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There's a nice article out there by @jzb summarizing @matt's recent #OSSNA presentation on his work on #AccessKit and "Newton", the new #accessibility architecture for #Wayland and the future of #GNOME & #Linux for assistive technologies: https://lwn.net/Articles/971541/
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The #Kivy UI framework for #Python has been completely inaccessible to screen reader users for many years. But my colleague Arnold Loubriat is working on fixing that, using #AccessKit, particularly the Python bindings that he developed. There's still a long way to go on this project, but he has posted his work in progress here: https://github.com/DataTriny/kivy/tree/accesskit-demo And here's the tracking issue: https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/8547
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Just noticed that in the latest version of the JAWS screen reader (JAWS 2023), UI Automation live regions are now announced; they weren't in JAWS 2022. Thanks #Vispero. Now I don't have to compromise on the UIA implementation in #AccessKit by using notifications where live regions should be used. #accessibility