What Chris said... And sorry if that does not address the question, but let's not forget the Linux console aka tty. No graphical element, only actual text, so no such issue. Didier Le 25/09/2022 à 20:10, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : >> Do you happen to know of any resources on screen-reader friendliness for >> TUIs in general? Is there any particular way screen-readers know how to >> distinguish from actual text and "graphical" elements? Or a way that TUI >> program developers can accomodate that? > > Here comes a wall of pontification... > > Not really. As a rule, I avoid TUIs. Interfaces that exploit the > cursor-addressable terminal seem like the worst of both the text and GUI > world to me. Essentially, a TUI is just a GUI with a VT100 as the > canvas and typically no underlying object toolkit[1]. But don't let > that discourage you. > > I use three types of interfaces. > > 1. Self-voicing. I make heavy use of Emacs with the Emacspeak > extension. Emacs can be a TUI or a GUI program, and with extensions > like Emacspeak and speechd.el, it can be a self-voicing program as > well. Editing text is a great UI metaphor. > > 2. Teletype-style programs, either with their own interactive input > loops, or called directly from the shell. Edbrowse is an example of the > former category. The reddit client I use, reddio, is an example of the > latter. There's an excellent opinion piece about teletype-style interaction > written by Karl Dahlke: <https://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html>. > > 3. GUIs, when I must. > > [1] As a thought experiment, we could imagine an object toolkit for the > terminal: a GTK or QT for the VT100, if you will. It's been done > before, though I don't remember any citations off the top of my head. > In theory, such a toolkit could provide hooks for screenreaders, to give > a more seamless / less frustrating experience. That hasn't been done, > and I don't know if it would be worth doing. > > -- Chris _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list