Funny you mention it. I was thinking of filing bugs against ATK and
AT-SPI2 to suggest implementation. Since you mention it, please do so.
Thanks!
--joanie

On 01/23/2018 07:01 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While working on accessibility of firefox, we have found that when
> continuously reading a web page, the page gets scrolled automatically
> only line by line. On windows, NVDA gets firefox to scroll paragraph by
> paragraph, which makes reading nicer. More generally, AT technologies
> such as magnifiers etc. could have a use for a primitive to tell
> application how scrolling should behave.
> 
> On windows, IA2 provides ScrollTo RPCs
> http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/interface_i_accessible2.html#afd79074abd176643d560444058da55fc
> which allows the screen reader to act on application scrolling: bring
> some object to the top or bottom of the screen, at some specific
> location, etc.  This is what allows NVDA to get firefox to scroll
> paragraph by paragraph.
> 
> I'm wondering whether adding this to AT-SPI could be considered?
> 
> I have reported this question to 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792820
> BTW, at-spi2-core's README file still points people to the
> accessibility-at...@lists.linux-foundation.org mailing list
> 
> Samuel
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