[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Thu Feb 25 21:52:01 GMT 2021
On 25-Feb-2021 19:42, Devin Prater wrote:
> So, this is where client creators come in. Gemini clients should have a way to hide preformatted blocks, or fold them, or if they are a GUI client, like GemiNaut, which shows the Gemini text in n HTML-like area, map the blocks to a frame, so that screen readers can skip them.
Hello - GemiNaut author here. I'd be interested to understand further 
how to make GemiNaut more accessible.? As you have seen it uses an HTML 
renderer for the GUI layer, so in theory I'd expect it would be possible 
to have good accessibility to allow skipping over the preformatted areas.

How is this done for well behaved websites, where you want to specify an 
area that the user can skip over? Is there a standard way this is done?

An initial search suggests to use |aria-hidden="true" as an element 
attribute to hide it from screen readers.|

This is not my area of expertise, so I'm happy to follow up any pointers 
or take pull requests. Feel free to write to me off the list if you prefer.

 ?- Luke


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