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Terminals not accessible using nano, vim, etc. in Cloud Shell and likely elsewhere #5065

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pattch opened this issue Jun 3, 2024 · 1 comment

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@pattch
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pattch commented Jun 3, 2024

Details

  • Browser and browser version: Chrome
  • OS version: Windows, MacOS, Linux
  • xterm.js version: xterm v5

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open xterm terminal, enabling screenreader mode (e.g. https://shell.cloud.google.com/?show=terminal)
  2. Run vim or nano
  3. Enter text, navigate over text using arrow keys

Observed results:

  1. No content is announced to screen readers

Expected results:
2. As with normal interaction modes, content should get announced to screen readers

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Tyriar commented Jul 3, 2024

@pattch do you set screenReaderMode? Note that there's only a limited about that can happen here since those apps draw text to the screen instead of streaming text so they're inherently inaccessible.

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