From: Eric Danan <eric.danan@u-cergy.fr>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:05:41 +0200
Due to a visual impairment I constantly work with a screen magnifier
turned on (in full screen mode), and I need it to track the cursor/caret
to follow what I am typing.
So far I am using emacs 26.1 on cygwin on windows 10, and the windows 10
magnifier does the job of tracking the cursor.
I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the
fedora (version 29) distribution to try it out. The gnome (3.30) shell
magnifier supports cursor tracking and it works in other applications
but not emacs (26.1).
I previously sent this message to the gnome accessibility list (that was
a long time ago in 2015, so with earlier versions of emacs and gnome)
and got a reply from Alex Arnaud stating:
> I've tried to test Emacs with Accercicer (a accessibility debug tool)
and my conclusion are Emacs doesn't connect it to AT-SPI (accessibility
stack).
The Windows port of Emacs has special code to move the system caret in
sync with the cursor. I guess the X build should have something
similar, patches are welcome to implement that.