Re: [orca-list] VSCode now is using electron 7

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Google for vscode insiders, download the latest build. I get the .tar.gz 
packages which just untar into a directory, but feel free to grab distro 
packages if you like.


Be sure to use the --force-renderer-accessibility flag. I wrote a 
script, which I'll include below, that does this for you. It's pretty 
simple but it helps. Edit accordingly, of course.


VSCode has good online documentation. I found this in particular helpful 
when I got started under Windows a while back:


https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface


The command pallet is useful. It's kind of like Emacs' command buffer, 
or whatever the area is called where you can manually enter commands. 
Access it via Ctrl-p or F1. This lists all commands, bound and unbound, 
with their keyboard shortcuts and an autocomplete search. I think there 
are other menus listing keyboard shortcuts but I don't know them off-hand.


You'll want to go into user settings and enable editor accessibility, 
since screen reader detection doesn't pick up Orca yet. I won't give 
detailed instructions because you requested basic, and I'm too lazy to 
do the legwork. But essentially you want to press Ctrl-, to access 
preferences, click the User button to be sure you're editing global user 
preferences, then tab around/navigate through the tree until you find 
accessibility settings. I think it may be in the common settings group, 
and searching may also work. Switch it from auto/autodetect to on.


Hope that helps. Here's my shell script, in ~/bin/code-insiders:


#!/bin/sh

exec ~/opt/VSCode-linux-x64/code-insiders --force-renderer-accessibility $@

On 2/7/20 1:52 PM, John G Heim via orca-list wrote:
> Can I get some basic instructions on how to try this?
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> On 2/7/20 7:13 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi all.
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> > Electron 7 is back in the latest versions of code-insiders.
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> > This allows for reasonable accessibility in VSCode, with a tendency 
> > to improve.
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> > Thanks.
> >
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> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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> GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html