Modernizing accessibility for desktop Linux

Posted May 9, 2024 9:44 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)
Parent article: Modernizing accessibility for desktop Linux

>Campbell ... described scenarios of allowing accessible remote-desktop sessions even when the remote machine had no assistive technologies running. He also said it might be possible to provide accessible screenshots and screencasts using Newton, because the accessibility trees could just be bundled with the image or pushed along with the screencast.

I'm in full support of this effort, please don't misunderstand the following questions: could you avoid rendering the image and just push me the accessibility tree so I can wrangle it into my own remote interface? How much of that would be like reinventing X11 or RDP v5's DirectX-accelerated partial rendering?

K3n.