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ErikReider
Improve accessibiity
Although swaync is already a great program, both in configurability and usability, I think it needs a little bit of improvement when it comes to accessibility.
I admit I haven't dug into the code to see if it works good with any screen reader or something like that, nor I have tried setting one up as I don't need them, but I think it could help a lot of people with visual impairments. My apologies if it's already "compliant" and I haven't noticed.
I don't know how much work it's needed, nor I'm fluent in Vala, but I could try to help somewhat when I get a hang of the language.
edit: my apologies, swaync is already navigable with the keyboard, but through shortcuts. I was trying to toggle the dnd button by getting to it with the arrow keys. Lovely that it already works!
I actually haven't checked if it's "compliant" or not. Do you know of any software that'll do tts?
Orca should be one of the most well-known. It says in the gnome wiki that it works with applications supporting the at-spi toolkit. Link to the wiki for more info
edit: it says in the wiki that GTK+ includes support for at-spi, but I don't know if it works by default or if it requires the dev's intervention.
I'm trying to use orca, but it seems the latest release is really intended only for gnome 42, which is a deal breaker if it starts using gnome-shell code only. Did you happen to come across other screen reader softwares? Cause I didn't, unfortunately.
I managed to get it working! Apparently, the output modules were not installed. I installed festival, festival-freebsoft-utils and laungage packs, then configured speech dispatcher with spd-conf to use festival.
swaync kind of works out of the box with the reader, but it lacks some info.
I cannot hear notifications when they pop up, but I can hear them when I open the control center. It will state that there's a framelist with $number item(s) and proceed to state the first notification.
At the moment it will only say "not selected: $notification-title push button", completely ignoging the content of the notification ($notification-title is a placeholder) and then read each button's label.
Orca will only speak a notification if selected with the keyboard, while with easyeffects for example it will announce panel names when opened with a mouse click.
For not even thinking about accessibility, swaync is a great span ahead of other programs! :D