[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

[Solène Rapenne]

Le 2021-02-25 22:34, Oliver Simmons a ?crit :

> 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:

=> http://edbrowse.org/ the edbrowse command line editor browser

adding gemini capability may be a good idea