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

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

In general I download from the following link:


https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=linux64&build=insiders


On 2/7/20 4:59 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/7/20 7:13 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > Electron 7 is back in the latest versions of code-insiders.
> > >
> > >
> > > This allows for reasonable accessibility in VSCode, with a tendency 
> > > to improve.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > orca-list mailing list
> > > orca-list gnome org
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > 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