accessibility: use real TTY cursor in room list #337

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opened 2025-10-14 15:46:18 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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Originally created by @humenda on 2/23/2024

The :rooms list uses a visual cursor instead of the "real" TTY cursor. This
one stays either at the end or the beginning of the list. This is problematic
for blind users using a screen reader. The cursor is used to determine which
item is selected.
You can compare this on GNU/Linux when using dialog, once without
--visit-items and once with --visit-items. Without this change, a blind user
can just learn the room list and their indices by heart, navigate to the
memorised index and hope they'll end up in the right room.

*Originally created by @humenda on 2/23/2024* The `:rooms` list uses a visual cursor instead of the "real" TTY cursor. This one stays either at the end or the beginning of the list. This is problematic for blind users using a screen reader. The cursor is used to determine which item is selected. You can compare this on GNU/Linux when using dialog, once without `--visit-items` and once with `--visit-items`. Without this change, a blind user can just learn the room list and their indices by heart, navigate to the memorised index and hope they'll end up in the right room.