From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Screen reader detection broken [Was: Re: Windows Emacs and screen readers] Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:17:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120248837 10486 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 20:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 22:13:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoRtT-0001aM-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:13:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoS1z-0007ht-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoS0g-0007FL-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoS0b-0007Ce-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoS0a-0007BU-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoS2J-0006qP-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-165-204.inter.net.il [84.228.165.204]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BSL24949 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 23:17:32 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Nikhil Nair In-reply-to: (message from Nikhil Nair on Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:50:54 +0100 (BST)) 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:40047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40047 > Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:50:54 +0100 (BST) > From: Nikhil Nair > > However, if it's supposed to be autodetecting screen readers, this isn't > working at all: I had to add (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret t) to my > .emacs. > > Although I don't really use it any more, I have a version of Window-Eyes > (another popular screen reader) from a couple of years ago (as opposed to > my version of JAWS, which is up to date). Emacs wasn't able to autodetect > this, either. If you tell us what are the possible ways to autodetect screen readers, it's possible that we will teach Emacs to turn that option on automatically when a screen reader is active. Please note that to do the right thing, it is not enough to detect that a screen reader is installed: Emacs should find out whether it is actually active for the current user. TIA