Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Prose v1 - a collaborative text editor

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

Hi Sébastien,

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear Adrien,
> 
> I find it awesome that such a tool is developed in OCaml and wish it all
> the possible success.
> 
> Has accessibility already been taken into account? Is there any plan on
> this for future developemnt? I am asking because most of the pads I know
> lack this feature.

Accessibility has not really been taken into account so far. However I
definitely see that as an issue. My main problem with doing it is that
this is not a field I know and I definitely welcome pointers to
resources I could learn from.

Actually, my own machines typically force white text on dark
backgrounds, including for web pages. As such I already avoid things
that wouldn't render properly (CSS and font icons) and try to label
interactive elements (although I haven't managed to do it for everything
yet, see e.g. https://gitlab.com/adrien-n/prose/issues/42 ).

That said, this also depends on Ocsigen and I don't know how well it
fares on this. IIRC there are APIs related to accessibility but I
haven't looked at them and I can't tell whether they cover everything
needed (it's not unlikely they do).

It's also important to take the JS library into account. I think it
doesn't fare too bad in this aspect but I haven't checked properly.

There are also some features that I don't know how to make accessible.
On a graphical display, and especially with colors, it is easy to notice
edits from others without being interrupted. This relies either a lot on
peripheral vision, or on eyes being able to quickly jump to the proper
position when the text suddenly shifts after words or lines are
inserted. Hopefully, while these situations happen, they are not the
norm. Material to learn from is welcome for this too.

All in all, this is going to take a few months to get into the code but
again there are many things that still need to be done.
rhere is already a ticket on gitlab about this:
https://gitlab.com/adrien-n/prose/issues/24 . It is not very detailed
and I guess I'm both missing some things and wrong on others so input is
welcome. :)

Best regards,

-- 
Adrien Nader