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Do highlighting for at least the navigation node

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
css, javascript, python
Domain
accessibility, frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start by tracing how navigation reports the current node and how the MathCAT output is integrated into the web page. Compare the proposed internal-ID mapping with adding IDs to the document, then verify that JavaScript can locate the node and that its bounding box is highlighted during navigation.

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Description

NVDA has the ability to highlight the current focus (Visual preference: highlight system focus). Maybe this can be done while navigating. It requires adding ids to the web page, or writing some code that maps the internal ids used for reporting the current node back to the original tree. Then JS can get the bounding box and highlight it. CSS could be used if modifying the document is an option.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
10
Forks
10
Avg merge
10h 40m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

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