可访问性

介绍

Accessibility in computer software is making applications usable for people with different abilities. It is important to take different people's needs into account, for example, in case of low vision, hearing, dexterity, or cognitive problems. Some examples of accessibility measures are keyboard shortcuts, a high-contrast user interface that uses specially selected colors and fonts, or support for assistive tools such as screen readers and braille displays.

任何应用程序都应瞄准的基本清单:

  • Usability - Usability and user centric design generally lead to more usable applications, including improvements for people with various abilities.
  • 字体 - Font settings should follow the system/platform. This allows users to select fonts for readability and increasing the font size.
  • 颜色 - Provide enough contrast and consider the most common cases of low vision and color blindness. Make sure that the application is usable, for example, for people with red/green blindness, and don't depend on colors only.
  • Scalable UI - A user interface that works in various sizes and properly supports different fonts and accommodates size changes.
  • Sounds - Do not exclusively rely on sound notifications, provide a visual alternative when a sound signal is imperative to using the application.
  • Spelling - Offer spell checking wherever it makes sense, even when only a single word is expected.
  • Assistive Technology - Support the use of assistive tools (AT). Either use standard widgets/controls which support ATs out of the box, or make sure that your custom widgets and controls support accessibility properly. In order to learn more about this read on below.

This part of the documentation assumes that the basics for accessibility, which go hand in hand with usability, are already in good shape. The rest of this document focuses more specifically on supporting assistive technology.

Assistive Tools (or ATs) come in great variety and help users with different tasks. For this reason what individual applications offer (with the help of Qt) is a generic API that allows to inspect what is on screen in a semantic way and offers the typical interactions with the UI elements.

Applications do not usually communicate directly with the assistive tools, but through a platform specific API. Generally the communication with the ATs works though an IPC mechanism. Semantic information about user interface elements, such as buttons and scroll bars, is exposed to the assistive technologies. Qt supports UI Automation on Windows, macOS Accessibility on macOS, and AT-SPI via DBus on Unix/X11. The platform specific technologies are abstracted by Qt, so that applications do not need any platform specific changes to work with the different native APIs. Qt tries to make adding accessibility support to your application as easy as possible, only a few changes from your side may be required to allow even more users to enjoy it.

The main reason to consult this documentation is to learn how to make custom QWidget subclasses and QQuickItem s accessible.

In this overview document, we will examine the overall Qt accessibility architecture, and how to implement accessibility for custom widgets and elements.

使应用程序可访问

这 2 页面聚焦于给出如何取得良好可达性的概述:

QWidget 应用程序的可访问性

Qt Quick 应用程序的可访问性

这些类为可访问应用程序提供支持:

Accessible

启用 QML 项的可访问性

QAccessible

与可访问性相关的枚举和静态函数

QAccessibleActionInterface

Implements support for invocable actions in the interface

QAccessibleEditableTextInterface

实现对具有可编辑文本的对象的支持

QAccessibleEvent

用于可访问性通知的基类

QAccessibleInterface

定义暴露有关可访问对象的信息的接口

QAccessibleObject

为 QObjects 实现 QAccessibleInterface 部分

QAccessiblePlugin

为用户界面元素提供可访问性信息的插件的抽象基类

QAccessibleStateChangeEvent

通知可访问性框架对象的状态已改变

QAccessibleTableCellInterface

实现对 IAccessibleTable2 单元格接口的支持

QAccessibleTableInterface

Implements support for the IAccessibleTable2 interface

QAccessibleTableModelChangeEvent

表示表格、列表或树中添加或移除单元格的变化。若改变影响多行,firstColumn 和 lastColumn 将返回 -1。同样,对于列,行函数可能返回 -1

QAccessibleTextCursorEvent

光标移动的通知

QAccessibleTextInsertEvent

正在插入文本的通知

QAccessibleTextInterface

实现对文本处理的支持

QAccessibleTextRemoveEvent

正被删除文本的通知

QAccessibleTextSelectionEvent

对象文本选定改变的信号

QAccessibleTextUpdateEvent

有关文本改变的通知。这用于支持可编辑文本 (譬如:行编辑) 的可访问。例如,此事件发生,当选中文本的一部分被粘贴新文本或在编辑器覆盖模式下被替换时。

QAccessibleValueChangeEvent

描述可访问对象的值改变

QAccessibleValueInterface

实现对操纵值对象的支持

QAccessibleWidget

为 QWidgets 实现 QAccessibleInterface

QWidget 应用程序的可访问性