Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using the X Windows functions. Instead they handle that themselves and send the image result to X. Additionally X Windows is generally on the way out with Wayland being the new thing.
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 21:57 -0400, Arthur Torrey wrote: > Jean Louis pointed at Vinux - which I had found and looked to me like > a near-dead project - The home page is non-https, and is skeletal at > best... The Wiki is talking about the 'latest version' as of 2015, > and while it says the last update was in 2019, the download site > doesn't connect (Firefox times out w/ can't find site error) and > there have only been about 2 changes to the wiki since it was created > in 2013 according to it's history page... > > I found a few other low vision projects and they seemed similarly > moribund. I asked on another site and the response I got was either > similar pointers to seemingly dead projects, or that because most of > the mainstream distros now have some level of accessibility built in, > the low-vision / blind specific projects have mostly died. > > As a non-programmer, who has listened to a few presentations at > Libre-Planet and read articles here and there I can't contribute any > code, but as a 'partly baked idea' my thought about how it might be > possible to do a better job on accessibility might be to try and tap > into the system at a much earlier level.... > > What would happen if instead of trying to put accessibility in at the > window manager (KDE / Gnome / etc.) level, there was instead an X- > Windows driver that provided input to a screen-reader as a "display > type"? How about having an "accessible keyboard" option (probably as > an intermediate layer between the usual keyboard choices and the rest > of the system as that would make it easy to use any desired key- > mapping underneath it?) > > It seems to me that the closer the accessibility options are to the > "bare metal hardware" the less they would be relying on window > managers / programs to do the "right thing", and the more universally > consistent they would be. > > Possibly less universal, but still coming in at a fairly low level, > what if there was an "accessible" option for choosing the > internationalization when setting up? > > As I said this may be something that wouldn't work for reasons that > are above my pay-grade to understand, but perhaps might just be > something that hadn't been considered. > > ------------------ > Arthur Torrey - <arthur_tor...@comcast.net> > ------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss