[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

[Devin Prater]

Thanks for your interest. Frames are the one thing I've seen that screen
readers most treat as a "container" that can be skipped. So, have the
blocks with a roll of frame, that is, the <iframe> roll if possible, or
just make them <iframe> if possible. I'm more of a user than a
developer, sorry. Other than that, GemiNaut, as far as I've used it,
works great. I'll stress test it more in the coming weeks and get back
to you if I find anything else.

On 2/25/21 3:52 PM, Luke Emmet wrote:
> 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