Screen reader accessibility when using Kitty on Linux?

[C-Loftus]

Hi all,

I was curious if kitty is accessible on Linux when using a screen reader. I could not find this info in the github issues or the docs. When I test with Orca version 49 on Ubuntu 24.04 I don't get any echo back as I type and nothing is spoken, leading me think it is not accessible and not sending the text changed events that a screen reader would need to speak text.

This is contrasted with gnome terminal; if I type characters in this terminal Orca will speak them out loud. Obviously I prefer kitty so I was curious if there is a way to make it accessible that I am overlooking.

This is my kitty version

host@computer ~> kitty --version
kitty 0.32.2 created by Kovid Goyal

Thank you very much
Regards
Colton

[kovidgoyal]

Not that I know of. kitty contains no code to integrate with screen readers.

[neutralhex]

Hi, as a visually impaired person I would also like to use Kitty but it is not accessible. Do you know if this is very hard to implement?

[kovidgoyal]

No idea, but more importantly I doubt very much the terminal is the right place to implement this. It has no knowledge of what parts of the screen should be read out and what parts should not, not to mention for TUI fullscreen apps, the entire screen is typically redrawn so the terminal cannot know what to read.