Re: Accessibility: caret tracking in emacs with gnome shell magnifier

[Alex ARNAUD <alex@arnaud.link>]

Hello Eric,

I'm myself a visual-impaired and an emacs users.

I advise you to run emacs inside the GNOME Terminal. The steps are:
1) Open GNOME Terminal
2) Write the command "emacs -nw"

I personally use Debian GNU/Linux, Mate and Compiz Reloaded focus 
tracking feature because I found them more reliable for those reasons:
- There is an accessibility team inside Debian
- Mate team take care of accessibility and offer a more natural desktop 
experience
- I'm participating to the screen magnifier and focus tracking of Compiz 
reloaded so I couldn't be fully objective but I hope our focus tracking 
feature is more reliable than the GNOME One, if not, don't hesitate to 
fill a bug.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 25/02/2019 à 10:34, Eric Danan a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Due to a visual impairment I constantly work with a screen magnifier 
> turned on (in full screen mode), and I need it to track the caret to 
> follow what I am typing.
> 
> So far I am using emacs 26.1 on cygwin on windows 10, and the windows 10 
> magnifier does the job of tracking the caret.
> 
> I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the 
> fedora (version 29) distribution to try it out. The gnome (3.30) shell 
> magnifier supports caret tracking and it works in other applications but 
> not emacs (26.1).
> 
> I previously sent this message to the gnome accessibility list (that was 
> a long time ago in 2015, so with earlier versions of emacs and gnome) 
> and got a reply from Alex Arnaud (cc) stating:
> 
>  > I've tried to test Emacs with Accercicer (a accessibility debug tool) 
> and my conclusion are Emacs doesn't connect it to AT-SPI (accessibility 
> stack).
> 
> He also suggested that I write to this list, which I'm (finally!) doing. 
> I hope it is appropriate to report this here.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Eric