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Is it app state specific? Can it detect a text box within an app? Or a text box while in Insert mode in a vim-like app?

• SCdF 3y ago
  By and large it's not that smart, no. For example[1] it doesn't know if you're using VSCode that you have focused the inbuilt terminal, and so it should now accept terminal commands (eg "cd <whatever>") until you focus back. It knows about the language that you are using because you have configured your text editor to have the file name in the window name, which it can reliably read. This is also how you have website specific configuration. [1] last I checked! I think there was some work to try to solve this problem, I'm not sure where they got to though, I kind of went down my own configuration fork for a while
• rntz 3y ago
  With Talon on Mac I believe this is possible (Mac has surprisingly nice accessibility APIs), but I don't know whether Talon on X11 can do it. If it's possible it would probably(?) involve rolling your own at-spi stuff.
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  • phatskat 3y ago
    Apple in general seems to really embrace accessibility. I remember using the screen reader back in middle school because it was “cool”, and now some 25 years later I can see that it was the tip of the accessibility iceberg. My iPhone has just _tons_ of accessibility features that I’ll probably never use, but that are invaluable to people experiencing all kinds of accessibility hurdles in their daily life. I can’t speak much to windows accessibility, although Mouse Keys got me through several rough times in my life where I fried or broke my mouse in some way or another. I do think windows has improved with time, at least by accidentally triggering the screen reading in W10 more times than I’d care to admit