Kdeaccessibility-3.5.13

Introduction to Kdeaccessibility

Kdeaccessibility provides KDE programs to aid handicapped users. Programs include a screen magnifier, a text to speech plugin service to allow an application to speak using the DCOP interface, and an application for computer speech for mute users.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Kdeaccessibility Dependencies

Required

kdebase-3.5.13

Recommended

Optional

Akode-2.0.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdeaccessibility

Run-Time Dependencies

Several KDE accessibility programs access other programs at run time for rendering speech from text. These include FreeTTS-1.2.1, Festival, Festival Lite, Epos, or MBROLA with optionally Txt2pho.

Installation of Kdeaccessibility

Install kdeaccessibility with:

cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4       admin/libtool.m4.in &&
cp -v /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh admin/ltmain.sh     &&
sed -i -e "s@/usr/include/tqt@$TRINITY_PREFIX/include/tqt@"   \
          admin/acinclude.m4.in                               &&
make -f admin/Makefile.common                                 &&

./configure --prefix=$TRINITY_PREFIX \
            --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR     \
            --enable-closure         \
            --with-alsa              \
            --with-extra-includes=$TRINITY_PREFIX/include \
            --with-extra-libs=$TRINITY_PREFIX/lib         &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: kmag, kmousetool, and kmouth
Installed Libraries: kdeaccessibility support libraries
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

kmag

is a screen magnifier for KDE.

kmousetool

is a utility which clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly.

kmouth

is an application that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak.

Last updated on 2012-01-05 17:57:13 +0000