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

[Eric Danan <eric.danan@u-cergy.fr>]

Thank you Alex. I'd like to use GUI emacs so as to be able to e.g. use 
the pdf-tools package to view pdf files (this is not possible in 
terminal as far as I know). If I installed debian with the mate desktop, 
would caret tracking work in GUI emacs?

Thanks,

Eric

On 2019-02-25 11:06, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> 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