Suggestions for improving Kiwix-server for blind people

[patrick-emmabuntus]

Hello the Kiwix team,

To allow Kiwix-server to add accessibility functions for the blind people, I suggest you add shortcuts in the template files for pages read by the Kiwix server in the Kiwix common functions library.

For this I suggest you use the word "accesskey" to define these shortcuts, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/accesskey

Of course, there is a risk of conflict of these shortcuts with Browsers or the screen reader. In my case with Orca and Firefox, I used the following keys:

• S: to access the search area so Alt+Shift+S
• D: to access an article at random so Alt+Shift+D
• N: to access the home page of the encyclopedia so Alt+Shift+N
• W: to access the encyclopedias home page so Alt+Shift+W

Here are the patch files used to do this libkiwix.tar.gz