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Screen reader

#1

I just downloaded the latest version of sublime text today, and it is almost totally inaccessible with my screen readers
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS8
JAWS for windows and
http://nvda-project.org4
NVDA screen readers. For example, I can access the menus, but I can’t read anything in the editor. That is, I can’t write and read code because JAWS or
NVDA doesn’t say anything. Do you plan to make sublime text accessible for blind users like me in the future? I really want to use it but it’s just so
inaccessible for me. Thanks for any feedback
: :slight_smile:

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#2

You could open a issue on the Sublime Text issue tracker, but also on your screen reader programs requesting support for reading the Sublime Text screen.

  1. https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues

Do you never have any other program which your screen reader did not worked?

I would suggest for you to use the Visual Studio Code editor, which is very similar to Sublime Text, you can find it on the following address:

  1. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

The key differences is the for slow computers, Visual Studio Code will not word flawless as does Sublime Text because it is built-in over a web application as Google Chrome Browser, which is slower then a C++ application as Sublime Text.

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#3

probably related:


and the same thing but on Mac:

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