[Kde-accessibility] Presentation, follow text and some other things

Adrián Perales adrianperales at anche.no
Wed Jan 29 00:36:57 UTC 2014


First of all, my English is not very good when talking about this kind
of topic (I'm Spanish), so excuse me if I don't explain very well. I am
a regular desktop user with no much experience with collarobating in a
project, so excuse me if some of the points that I'm going to explain
are not in the correct place, or maybe they are implemented and I didn't
saw them.

I have sight issues, a some time ago I used a propietary accessibilty
program wich features I miss now that I need then, and I know that you
could implement them :)

I activated the Kwin zoom, because KMag seems to be oriented to be
floating on the desktop more than magnify all the screen. And there are
two points in wich this zoom is not very usefull: it doesn't follow text
cursor nor "menu focus". I explain.

Imagine you're writing a mail with Kmail or Thunderbird (like I'm doing
writing this), and the text disapear from the magnified zone of the
screen, you don't see what you're writing. With "follow text cursor" I
mean that the cursor that appears when writing text should be focused
instead of the mouse when writing.

With "Menu Focus" I refer to this cases when you're moving between menus
or programs with your keyboard. You select an element on the meno, or in
Dolphin, press "down" to select another, and in some momeent the element
selected is out of sight. The zoom should follow the focused item in
each case.

The last thing is an option that I remember I saw but I can't find now,
and It's useful when I'm not using the zoom. Press a key to make a
signal that mark where the mouse cursor is in the screen.

And I think that's all for now. Sorry again if I saw things that you
alredy have implemented or you have in your roadmap, or this isn't the
good place for asking for them.

Adrián Perales

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