Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Thu Apr 8 14:16:23 BST 2021
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Hi Devin
Thanks for the feedback, and for previously explaining to us sighted people the pitfalls of interacting with Gemini preformatted regions. It was based on your analysis and explanation that led me to put this improvement in.
I hope more authors will take the time to add a label to their preformatted regions and that this becomes "normal practice", particularly for ASCII art which seems to be more prevalent in Gemini, but can sound pretty bad through a screen reader.
- Luke
On 07-Apr-2021 17:12, Devin Prater wrote:
I'm very glad to see the accessibility improvements! Oh wait, have I
already said this? If so, sorry. This client was already great, and easy
to get started with since it uses a native web engine, but now it's even
better, without the need to hear Ascii art and such, and hearing any
description instead! Now, when Gemini takes off, and blind folks go
looking for a client (most blind people use Windows and iOS), I already
can wholeheartedly recommend clients for these platforms!
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com <mailto:r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 7:07 AM Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com > <mailto:luke at marmaladefoo.com>
wrote:
Hi Everyone
Just a quick note to announce the release of GemiNaut 0.8.11, a user
friendly and idiomatic Gemini client for MS Windows.
Key new features include:
* Client certificates - create and use these to access
sites that require them.
* Improved support for assistive technologies (e.g.
screen readers). Such users can interactively skip over
preformatted text regions.
Further details and downloads etc are linked from the full release
announcement:
gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/5-Apr-2021_GemiNaut_v0_8_11_release.gmi
<http://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/5-Apr-2021_GemiNaut_v0_8_11_release.gmi>
- Luke