On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, 21:21 Devin Prater, <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com> wrote: > Windows and Linux graphical screen readers, however, read web pages like a > document. So, there isn?t an easy way to skip past plain text, like Ascii > art and such. Even if the blocks are marked up in the GemText, it is up to > clients to show them. So, if a client just dumps the GemText into > paragraphs, and puts the Ascii art in with it, then it is hard to skip. One > can quickly arrow line by line until understandable words are spoken, but > this is slow and frustrating. Windows and Linux GUI screen readers do have > commands to ?skip to end of container,? which are used to skip block > quotes, frames, things like that. But the browser has to display them to > the screen reader as such, the screen reader doesn?t just guess this. > I'm not sure how the world of screen-readers/similar works, but: Since Gemini is very simple (unlike the web), creation of a dedicated client is a possibility. For preformatted text, it could read out the alt-text and then query you if you want it's contents read out to you. I have no idea how creation of such a client would be, but I imagine it would be easier than makes it them for most other things. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210225/af1f 13d0/attachment.htm>
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