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> Definitely possible from a technical standpoint

Yes and no, it would be possible, but only if the terminal emulator, the operating system's accessibility API, the screen reader and the library supported it. The library needs to output the right information via escape codes, the terminal emulator needs to expose it via the OS API, the OS API needs to have support for it, and the screen reader needs to know what to do with the information. I believe you could wrangle the existing a11y APIs and make it work, but you'd still need to implement support for it in emulators, libraries and screen readers. Not to mention that you'd actually have to design the standard and write a spec for it.

This would be slightly easier to do for terminal screen readers, which run directly inside a terminal emulator (kind of like Tmux) and pass most commands and keys unmodified, generating speech in the meantime.



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