https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462232
Bug ID: 462232
Summary: More Accessibility options under Settings >
Accessibility
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.26.3
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: madha...@outlook.com
CC: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Currently accessibility settings feel very unhelpful as it does not include
many much-needed features and KDE settings in general make it extremely hard to
find the accessibility features needed. I will try to explain why and what
needs to be done
As a visually impaired person myself i heavily rely on accessibility tools like
magnifiers, Dark mode and more. Whenever I install or try new distro or DE My
first instinct is to search for accessibility > Zoom and mostly i never had a
problem finding the tool i need by myself on first try with most other DE's and
other operating systems like windows. But, with KDE my first experience was
extremely painful as if i search for Zoom anywhere search results won't show
something like zoom or accessibility instead it would show Desktop Effects
which makes it completely unintuitive and as i cannot read without zoom the UI
was extremely confusing to me. So, i had to ask someone for help and they did
not know anything about KDE or linux in general, above all people lack patience
they always expect to find things instantly as such they would just read
whatever I ask them to read and when they read Desktop Effects again and again
it just made things worse and since zoom is not immediately visible when i
asked them to see if they can find something like zoom, they said "NO". which
made things extremely confusing with all my confusion i kept insisting it
should be under accessibility as zoom is an accessibility feature. Then it took
me two days to finaly figure out where Zoom is
Even now after knowing more about KDE and playing around with settings
sometimes i still feel like things are really unintuitive when it comes to
accessibility things are very much scattered
FEATURES REQUESTED
It would be nice to see more accessibility features added to KDE. The following
features should either be newly implemented or existing features should atleast
be placed under appropriate sections under accessibility settings. Existing
Kwin desktop effects should either be moved to settings > Accessibility or at
the very least get shortcuts linking to the necessary features
These features should also be easily searchable from anywhere on the desktop.
For visually impaired users
Zoom - Fullscreen zoom, Lens Zoom and Dock
Color inversion
High Contrast - high contrast with ability to switch between high contrast
"Light" and "Dark" themes
Font Size adjustments - Options for font sizes ranging from Very Small to Very
Huge with preset font sizes
Color Correction
Grayscale
Visual effects and animations - Ability to enable or disable visual effects
like animations, transparency and more
Mouse pointer Adjustments
Screen Reader
For Hearing impaired
Mono Audio
Captions
Visual feedback
For physically impaired
Speech to text
Keyboard adjustments
And more required accessibility options with a cleaner intuitive interface and
searchable properties for accessibility tools.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Issue 439840 mentions similar issue
Although i appreciate the fine-grained controls KDE offers When implementing
these accessibility features, please try to focus on providing intuitive
presets and defaults. Wich would offer a much better UX for people with
disabilities compared to them trying to figure out and finetune every aspect of
the desktop.
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