Terminals not accessible using nano, vim, etc. in Cloud Shell and likely elsewhere

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Terminals not accessible using nano, vim, etc. in Cloud Shell and likely elsewhere #5065

Open pattch opened 4 months ago

pattch commented 4 months ago

Details

Browser and browser version: Chrome
OS version: Windows, MacOS, Linux
xterm.js version: xterm v5

Steps to reproduce

Open xterm terminal, enabling screenreader mode (e.g. https://shell.cloud.google.com/?show=terminal)
Run vim or nano
Enter text, navigate over text using arrow keys

Observed results:

No content is announced to screen readers

Expected results:

As with normal interaction modes, content should get announced to screen readers

Tyriar commented 3 months ago

@pattch do you set screenReaderMode? Note that there's only a limited about that can happen here since those apps draw text to the screen instead of streaming text so they're inherently inaccessible.