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Oliver Simmons oliversimmo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 21:34:00 GMT 2021
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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 dedicatedclient is a possibility.
For preformatted text, it could read out the alt-text and then query you ifyou want it's contents read out to you.
I have no idea how creation of such a client would be, but I imagine itwould 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/af1f13d0/attachment.htm>