> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:42 AM, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 09:36:53 -0400, a ecrit: >> >>> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: >>>> Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native >>>> Linux touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something? >>> >>> Touch screens do work on Linux, they show up as a mouse. >> >> Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was talking about having a set of multitouch >> gestures for a window manager that allow for visually impaired folk to >> navigate the UI. Especially important would be the swipe to element >> navigation method. >> >> Is the window manager the right place for such a driver? > > No, it'd rather be the screen reader that grabs the touch screen device > so as to get its events and interpret them. > > That being said, one might want to be able to have gestures both toward > the screen reader and toward the window manager, in which case it'd have > to be "something else" that grabs the touch screen device and report the > gestures both to the screen reader and the window manager. I don't know > if such infrastructure exists already.
Seems like a similar approach to how keystrokes get passed from the keyboard to the screen reader as well as the other applications, should be put in place? I would imagine that we'd want this gesture handler to be written in a more performant language, as the use case is older mobile devices? If Rich is looking to do some significant contributing, is this a good place to start? --FC
