Using GlirOS with the keyboard or a screen reader

GlirOS can be used with the keyboard alone on its main screens: the chat, the model menu, Settings, Media Studio's main controls and the welcome steps, from GlirOS 0.1.81 (desktop app and web version).

Moving around with the keyboard

• Tab moves forward and Shift+Tab back. Every stop shows a focus ring.
• The first Tab in a new window shows Skip to the message box at the top left. Press Enter, and you can type straight away.
• The chat list and projects: a chat's title opens it, and a project's name opens or closes the project. The ⋯ button beside each one appears when you reach the row with Tab.
• The model menu: the arrow keys move up and down, Home and End go to the first and last model, and Enter chooses. Tab closes the menu and goes on from its button.
• The ⋯ menus: Tab closes them too.
• Settings and every dialog: while one is open, Tab stays inside it and goes round. Esc closes it, and you are back where you were.
• Media Studio's timeline: choose a clip, then Ctrl+← or Ctrl+→ moves it one place earlier or later. You can also use Earlier and Later in its part. Ctrl+Z takes a move back.
• Choices that look like a row of buttons (in Settings, and the welcome's language choice): each row is one Tab stop, and the arrow keys, Home and End choose.

With a screen reader

• An answer should be read once it is written, not word by word while GlirOS is still writing it.
• The parts of the screen have names: the chat list, the conversation and the page's sections. The open chat and the open Settings section are marked as the current one.
• Places and steps should be said: after a move on the timeline, the clip's place ("Clip 2 of 3"), and in the welcome, each step ("Step 2 of 4: …").

How it was checked

The chat, the model menu, every Settings section, Media Studio, the welcome steps and the dialogs went through an automated accessibility check (the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules, colour contrast included), with nothing left to fix, and then a walk through them with the keyboard. That is a check, not a certificate. GlirOS hasn't been tried with a screen reader by a person yet.

Not covered yet

The tools' own panels (for example a map or a calendar) haven't been checked yet.

Tell us what doesn't work

If something can't be reached with the keyboard, or a screen reader reads it wrongly, write to us from the Contact page and say: which screen (for example Settings > Memory, or the model menu), the keys you pressed, which screen reader and GlirOS's version (Settings > About). We'd like to fix it.