[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

[Devin Prater]

Okay, a note on Dragonstone: the text is readable, but seems to be plain
text, so tabbing to what I assume should be links on the "test" page
didn't work. Although, I guess that's all I'd really need to know about
are the links, but if the output could be "webified" by an engine that
Orca knows about, like geko or something to GTK, that'd be all the
better. The only other issue I found while doing a quick run is that the
"settings" button is unlabeled.

On 2/27/21 5:55 PM, Baschdel wrote:
> I've just got an Idea for clients which can't easily implement
> sections in their document rendering [1].
> The preformatted block could be reduced to a special "link" with the
> alt-text as label (or a placeholder) that, when activated shows a
> dialog window containing the content of the preformatted block. One
> could then instruct the screenreader to read the content of that
> window, if it starts talking gibberish one can simply close that window.
>
> I don't know how well screenreaders would handle this, so feedback
> will be appreciated.
>
> Greetings!
> - Baschdel
>
> (Currently rewriting the frontend of my browser to make it more
> flexible and hopefully also more accessible)
>
> [1] i.e. clients that use the Gtk TextView (Castor and Dragonstone (my
> client))