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Solène Rapenne solene at perso.pw
Thu Feb 25 21:37:56 GMT 2021
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Le 2021-02-25 22:34, Oliver Simmons a écrit :
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.as far as I know there is a command line programe line oriented that is commonly used in the accessibility area:
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http://edbrowse.org/ the edbrowse command line editor browser
adding gemini capability may be a good idea