a11y: document view not synchronized with screen reader & caret position
- Open a simple text-based PDF document (e.g. attached).
Make sure that the first page’s displayed, and activate caret navigation (F7). - Launch a supported screen reader (e.g. Orca).
- Start the “speak the entire document” function (using the Orca key,
typically Insert or CapsLock, and either A or Down depending on your profile). As the document’s getting read, you can see the caret moving along… BUT the view
doesn’t scroll accordingly: e.g. when reaching the next pages, you’ll remain
stuck visually with the first page.
Moving the caret manually does refresh the view’s vertical position. But then
another unwanted behavior manifests: using PageDown will scroll the view, but
NOT the caret (as you’d expect in any other program).
Edited by Valentin Villenave