Re: psql has some accessibility issues on Windows

Hi

pá 17. 7. 2020 v 12:39 odesílatel Jelte Fennema <Jelte(dot)Fennema(at)microsoft(dot)com>
napsal:

> During an accessibility review of Citus it was found that psql has some
> accessibility issues.
> Postgres version: 12.3
> OS: Windows 10
>
> Running this simple query has some issues:
> SELECT * FROM (VALUES (1, 'microsoft', 'microsoft.png', now(), now()), (2,
> 'azure', 'azure.png', now(), now())) as t(id, name, image, created,
> modified);
>
> 1. The table that is shown is not detected as a table by the screen
> reader. So, a screen reader user cannot navigate the table in a
> user-friendly way.
> 2. Datetimes are not being read by the screen reader as datetimes. So
> instead of saying "9th of March 2020, 10 hours 28 minutes and 46 seconds"
> it will instead say "2020 dash zero three dash zero nine 10 colon 28 colon
> 46"
> 3. After using 400% zoom the whole table doesn't fit in the window
> anymore and it starts to wrap in ugly ways. Instead it should resize the
> cells. You can easily reproduce this by making the standard psql window a
> bit smaller and you will see the same effect.
>
>
> The screen reader that was used is the "Narrator" that is included in
> windows.
>
> I'm not sure if this is can be fixed easily. Since all these issues seem
> to stem from the fact that it's a text only interface. So, it would
> probably require instrumenting this text in some way with accessibility
> attributes.
>

Are there some special tags for this purpose? It is easy to write special
psql format - now psql supports html, latex, ...

The problem with zoom should be related to Microsoft console probably -
psql is just a terminal client.

Regards

Pavel

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> Jelte
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