Hello Eric,
I'm myself a visual-impaired and an emacs users.
I advise you to run emacs inside the GNOME Terminal. The steps are:
1) Open GNOME Terminal
2) Write the command "emacs -nw"
I personally use Debian GNU/Linux, Mate and Compiz Reloaded focus
tracking feature because I found them more reliable for those reasons:
- There is an accessibility team inside Debian
- Mate team take care of accessibility and offer a more natural
desktop experience
- I'm participating to the screen magnifier and focus tracking of
Compiz reloaded so I couldn't be fully objective but I hope our focus
tracking feature is more reliable than the GNOME One, if not, don't
hesitate to fill a bug.
Best regards,
Alex.
Le 25/02/2019 à 10:34, Eric Danan a écrit :
Hello,
Due to a visual impairment I constantly work with a screen magnifier
turned on (in full screen mode), and I need it to track the caret to
follow what I am typing.
So far I am using emacs 26.1 on cygwin on windows 10, and the windows
10 magnifier does the job of tracking the caret.
I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed
the fedora (version 29) distribution to try it out. The gnome (3.30)
shell magnifier supports caret tracking and it works in other
applications but not emacs (26.1).
I previously sent this message to the gnome accessibility list (that
was a long time ago in 2015, so with earlier versions of emacs and
gnome) and got a reply from Alex Arnaud (cc) stating:
> I've tried to test Emacs with Accercicer (a accessibility debug
tool) and my conclusion are Emacs doesn't connect it to AT-SPI
(accessibility stack).
He also suggested that I write to this list, which I'm (finally!)
doing. I hope it is appropriate to report this here.
Best regards,
Eric