GNU nano - Bugs: bug #54654, [Request] improve accessibility of...
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bug #54654: [Request] improve accessibility of the help text by showing the cursor
Submitter: | Ben Key <bkey1> | ||
Submitted: | Thu 13 Sep 2018 12:24:27 AM UTC | ||
Severity: | 1 - Wish | Status: | Fixed |
Assigned to: | bens | Open/Closed: | Closed |
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Wed 28 Nov 2018 04:18:52 PM UTC, comment #9: |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Wed 28 Nov 2018 01:00:56 AM UTC, comment #8: Thanks. I just tested it in the MSYS2 build of Nano version 3.2 on Windows 10 64-bit. The cursor is now displayed in the help buffer and I can follow the cursor to keep track of my position in the help buffer.
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Ben Key <bkey1> |
Mon 12 Nov 2018 06:47:19 PM UTC, comment #7: Released in 3.2. |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Sun 07 Oct 2018 08:54:10 AM UTC, comment #6: The exact commit is 10d9742c. Will be available in 3.2. |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Sun 07 Oct 2018 08:51:32 AM UTC, comment #5: An improved patch was pushed to master. Thanks for reporting. |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Tue 02 Oct 2018 06:05:11 PM UTC, comment #4: If you can, please try the attached patch. |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Thu 13 Sep 2018 06:42:02 PM UTC, comment #3: Ah. What you call "the caret" most people call "the cursor". Your cursor apparently is a blinking underscore, mine is a non-blinking block (that inverts the character after the insertion point).
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Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Thu 13 Sep 2018 06:24:59 PM UTC, comment #2: Nano implements the caret, just not when reading help.
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Ben Key <bkey1> |
Thu 13 Sep 2018 06:03:49 PM UTC, comment #1: I'm unsure what you mean by "the caret". Is there any other program that implements this caret, and if so, how to enable it, so that I can see what you mean and how it is supposed to work? Does Vim or Geany or Gedit implement this caret? |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Thu 13 Sep 2018 12:24:27 AM UTC, original submission:
To improve accessibility of the Nano help, you should enable the caret in the Nano help text window. The caret helps someone who has low vision keep track of where they are in the document. In addition, the caret makes the text accessible to users of a screen reader since many screen readers will read the line of text at the caret location as you navigate through the text line by line.
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Ben Key <bkey1> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2018-11-12 | bens | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2018-10-08 | bens | Summary | [Request] improve accessibility of the help text: show the cursor to help mark the reading position | [Request] improve accessibility of the help text by showing the cursor | |
2018-10-07 | bens | Status | In Progress | Fixed | |
2018-10-02 | bens | Attached File | - | Added 0001-display-show-the-cursor-also-in-a-help-text-when-sho.patch, #45124 | |
Status | None | In Progress | |||
Assigned to | None | bens | |||
2018-09-13 | bens | Summary | [Request] improve accessibility of the help text: implement a "caret" that marks the reading position | [Request] improve accessibility of the help text: show the cursor to help mark the reading position | |
2018-09-13 | bens | Summary | {Request] improve accessibility of the help text: implement a "caret" that marks the reading position | [Request] improve accessibility of the help text: implement a "caret" that marks the reading position | |
2018-09-13 | bens | Severity | 3 - Normal | 1 - Wish | |
Summary | To improve accessibility of the Nano help, you should enable the caret in the Nano help text window | {Request] improve accessibility of the help text: implement a "caret" that marks the reading position | |||
2018-09-13 | bkey1 | Carbon-Copy | - | Added -email is unavailable- |
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Thanks for reporting back. Good to hear that the visible cursor has improved things for you.