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Change the keyboard shortcut for accessible output

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Area:Accessibility Enhancement
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Description

Increasing Access

The keyboard shortcut to "Turn On Accessible Output" enables both plain-text and table-text canvas descriptions. Merging #2694 would mean that both textOutput() and gridOutput() are called. This may confuse people using screen readers. See the "How NOT to use labels" section of How to label your p5.js code.

Feature enhancement details

I suggest defaulting to either plain-text or table-text descriptions.

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked textOutput() and gridOutput() references and the “How NOT to use labels” section of How to label your p5.js code. Determine which accessible description should be the default for the keyboard shortcut, then verify that the shortcut enables only that description and that the other output remains available separately.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
accessibility, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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