bug#21113: emacs Inaccessibility to Screen reader(orca)

[ali abdul ghani6]

> I know nothing about these things, so I wonder: Is Orca used much?
yes
> there other competing screen-reader APIs that would be better to focus
no

> Is Orca more convenient to use than Emacspeak?
yes


2021-01-21 6:19 غرينتش-08:00, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> 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?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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>


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