Accessible Arcan : Out of Sight | Arcan
Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days. This is mostly due to the major features are since long in place and that part of the project is biding its time with smaller fixes while waiting for improvements in the rest of the stack.
Recently the stars aligned and I had some time over to work on the accessibility story, particularly on the ‘no vision’ parts. Other forms (e.g. limited mobility, low vision) will be covered in future articles but most things are already in place, including eye tracking and bespoke devices like stream decks.
This is enabled by default during first setup. The first question presented will be to disable it, but there is no hidden trapdoor combination or setting to enable it for the first time.
The following recording shows using the builtin menu system to start a terminal emulator and open a PDF and the mouse cursor to navigate, with OCR results as I go. These will be elaborated on further in this article.
