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@Vivaldi Hey folks, just a quick heads up, I was going to use your browser while recording my next video but I can’t because I can’t get my screen reader to read the page (unlike how it can on Firefox and even in Chrome). Likely it’s the issues presented here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/60027/vivaldi-browser-screen-reader-accessibility
Would love to use it but I can’t until it works with screen readers.
@Vivaldi OK, well, scratch that, I am going to be using it because other stuff is broken on other browsers on Linux and Orca is broken and at least I can customise Vivaldi to be as plain as possible for the screencast. Will ping you folks once I have it so you can see the accessibility issue (I’ll be comparing it to Firefox which doesn’t have the same problem – as far as I can see neither to Chrome or Chromium-based Edge.)
I do love how I was able to remove almost everything from the interface.
@Vivaldi PS. The automatic light/dark theme switching is broken under GNOME + Wayland (Fedora).
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I wonder if they work with floor
@aral Unless I'm mistaken, GNOME does not offer this functionality by default. Personally I use the "Dark Mode Switcher" extension and I have no problem (Fedora Silverblue 39). But I don't use any particular theme, I kept the default one.
@lebout2canap In recent versions it does offer colour scheme switching but not on a schedule. I use the same extension to automate it based on sunrise/sunset times (which is also broken in GNOME because the location services thinks I’m in Sweden even though I haven’t been in Sweden for several years now) :)
@aral but you are welcome!
@torsten Haha, thanks :) It would be nice to visit again soon. Have some good friends there that I miss :)
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@aral Fortunately there is manual mode, it's always better than nothing.
@aral @Vivaldi I've also been playing with Vivaldi and so far, I have just one pet peeve. If I'm in the browser and press control+l, my screen reader doesn't automatically put me in forms/focus mode, so entering a URL requires an additional keystroke. Curious if you've found any workaround for that?
@alpuzz
Have you checked the focus settings in Settings > Keyboard and Settings > Webpages? Perhaps changing something there helps.
Also, if you've customized Vivaldi's Keyboard Shortcuts, could it be that you've set Ctrl + I as a shortcut for some command and now there's a bit of a clash?
@Vivaldi Thanks for the response! I've checked those settings and unless I'm missing something, still no change. I'm not a developer, but in non technical terms, it seems that there is something slightly programatically different about Vivaldi's address bar than the address bar in other Chromeum browsers. This is a minor issue but it does interrupt my normal workflow. Is there somewhere I could open a ddiscussion on it?
Please create a bug report on https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/ and let me know the ticket number (VB-###) you get, so I can follow up.
@aral
Yeah, screen reader compatibility is something we need to take a closer look at. 
Seeing the issue you're encountering would be a good start.
@Vivaldi Thanks for looking into it.
Just open the same page in Chrome and/or Firefox and Vivaldi with the screen reader on and see how it differs (with the other browsers the screen reader reads the page when it loads and see it as a separate context whereas with Vivaldi, it does not). I’d be surprised if this wasn’t the case on every platform, actually, but I’m encountering it on Linux.