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bug#21113: emacs Inaccessibility to Screen reader(orca)
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#21113: emacs Inaccessibility to Screen reader(orca) |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:19:36 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> Oh, I see, the term "accessibility" has a very particular meaning in the
> context of screen readers (I had thought it was just odd word choice in
> the original report).
I found this bug report pretty confusing, too, but the request is for
Emacs to support the Orca screen reader, which is a Gnome thing.
To do this, Emacs has to implement a Gnome API:
https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/introduction.html.en
The report states that "emacs -nw" works fine -- but according to some
experimentation, that seems to be because Terminal (the Gnome
xterm-a-like) supports Orca. Emacs itself doesn't support Orca at all.
I know nothing about these things, so I wonder: Is Orca used much? Are
there other competing screen-reader APIs that would be better to focus
on? Is Orca more convenient to use than Emacspeak?
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