Accessibility: improve support for caret configuration
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- Dominant language
- Racket
- Stars
- 68
- Forks
- 82
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Description
This issue was first reported on the mailing list: some people find a blinking caret either an annoyance or an accessibility issue.
Robby’s https://github.com/racket/gui/commit/1c4e78efc43036aabf77a7a1a313f19e23131b7e was a first step toward addressing this by creating a preference ('framework:caret-blink-disable?) to turn blinking off.
As noted, it would be nice to look at the system-level preference when available. The issue https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10668 seems to have some useful notes.
Beyond disabling blinking, it looks like all platforms support configuring the speed of caret blinking, and Windows and GTK seem to make the width and color of the caret configurable as well. Probably Racket should, too.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked commit creating the 'framework:caret-blink-disable?' preference, then review the mailing-list report and Electron issue for platform-level behavior. The scope is to assess system preferences and support caret blink speed, plus width and color where available; confirm the relevant platform behavior before defining done.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- accessibility, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100