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ulyssa / iamb

A Matrix client for Vim addicts
https://iamb.chat
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accessibility: use real TTY cursor in room list #202

Open humenda opened 7 months ago

humenda commented 7 months ago

The :rooms list uses a visual cursor instead of the "real" TTY cursor. This one stays either at the end or the beginning of the list. This is problematic for blind users using a screen reader. The cursor is used to determine which item is selected. You can compare this on GNU/Linux when using dialog, once without --visit-items and once with --visit-items. Without this change, a blind user can just learn the room list and their indices by heart, navigate to the memorised index and hope they'll end up in the right room.

Merivuokko commented 1 month ago

I am struggling with this one too.

Currently there are no accessible matrix clients for blind users on free operating systems.