- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:35:10 +0000
- To: Markku Hakkinen <mhakkinen@acm.org>
- Cc: "Sean Murphy (seanmmur)" <seanmmur@cisco.com>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Thanks Mark. That's useful information. I've been talking with someone at MS about VSCode, but was just hunting for additional information to try and get my bearings. Léonie. On 19/01/2018 23:55, Markku Hakkinen wrote: > Hi Leonie, > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk > <mailto:tink@tink.uk>> wrote: > > On 15/01/2018 01:42, Markku Hakkinen wrote: > > Electron is a wrapper around the Chrome (Chromium) browser. The > accessibility support native to the version of Chromium used to > build Electron is what is exposed. Cautionary note is that > Electron releases typically lag several releases behind the > current Chrome release, meaning bugs fixed in newer releases of > Chrome will not be present in the “current” Electron release. > > > It seems from what you've said, that Electron can be accessible - > with the caveat that there may be some lag before issues are > resolved there. Does that mean Electron in and of itself is capable > of a reasonable degree of accessibility? > > > I am personally aware of, designed for, and tested accessible > applications built on Electron, and hence well aware of the lag issues. > Also, I need to add that our electron-based applications are currently > executing under Windows. We have not yet tested on other platforms > (e.g., MacOS) so YMMV on other platforms. With the caveat of Windows, > and coding the web application accessibly, then, yes, Electron is > capable of accessible applications in that Google Chrome allows for same. > > > I ask because I'm trying (and failing) to find a screen reader > accessible code editor. Atom and VS Code are both Electron based, > and neither seems usefully accessible. Much the same seems to be > true of Slack, another Electron based tool I'd very much like to be > usable with a screen reader. > > > I would have to suggest that VS Code has failings in implementation. 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