From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emilio Lopes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows Emacs and screen readers Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120033932 15546 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2005 08:32:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 10:32:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnXz3-000761-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:31:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnY72-0007EQ-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnXc2-0006uD-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnXb8-0006ja-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnXb3-0006Fg-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DnXE8-0005lb-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DnX2G-00061b-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from vproxy01.bmwgroup.com ([192.109.190.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:31:04 +0200 Original-Received: from eclig by vproxy01.bmwgroup.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:31:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 192.109.190.88 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39874 Jason Rumney gnu.org> writes: > > Nikhil Nair pobox.com> writes: > > > However, I suspect I was reinventing the wheel, as I found some posts on > > this list from 3 years ago which talked about the use of the system caret, > > and JAWS working well with the GUI version; Ben Key of Freedom Scientific > > (who develop JAWS) seemed quite happy with the results. What I couldn't > > tell was whether this behaviour was in version 21.3, or whether I'd need a > > later development version; > > You need the later development version. Although the first changes to > use the system caret were made in 2001, a few months before 21.1 was > released, it was too close to the release to make it into 21.1, and > subsequent releases have all been bugfix releases. > Here is the documentation of the relevant user option: w32-use-visible-system-caret's value is nil Flag to make the system caret visible. When this is non-nil, Emacs will indicate the position of point by using the system caret instead of drawing its own cursor. Some screen reader software does not track the system cursor properly when it is invisible, and gets confused by Emacs drawing its own cursor, so this variable is initialized to t when Emacs detects that screen reader software is running as it starts up. When this variable is set, other variables affecting the appearance of the cursor have no effect. Defined in `C source code'.