Far more hints than Vimari? about vimac

[dexterleng]

Looking further into this, it appears the non-clickable items in this page have the "AXShowMenu" and "AXScrollToVisible" actions - hence the hints are shown for them. The "clickable" items have an addition "AXPress" action.

By allowing hints to be show for selected actions, one could configure Vimac to show hints only for "AXPress" actions (maybe that should be the default).

[dexterleng]

@dsernst customizing of actions to show hints for is now merged (AXShowMenu is not in the whitelist by default). There should be much less noise especially in web areas and electron apps.

Look forward it in the next update!

[dexterleng]

Note that there are still hints that overlap. This is because AXLink has a press action, but its child AXStaticText also has a press action. I'm working on addressing this edge case.

[dexterleng]

Vimac shows hints for what the accessibility API thinks is "actionable". There are several types of actions (press, show menu,...) and vimac shows hints for all types. I have been tweaking the types to show for in several older versions but just settled to show for all.

I think a solution here will be to allow users to customize the types of elements to show hints form

[dsernst]

Awesome insights 🎉

Agree that limiting to "AXPress" sounds like a reasonable default. Especially if that's what Vimium / Vimari already chose.

I saw you already built a UI mechanic for "rotating through" different hints. Maybe that sort of thing could be useful here, if the user wants to click something that was filtered out? Not sure, just brainstorming.

Lmk how/if I can help further 😄