- Electron version: 0.37.6
- Operating system: Windows 10

In VSCode, in order to support screen readers while editing text, we set the contents of a `<textarea>` to the contents of the line and lines surrounding the cursor and we mirror the editor selection in the `<textarea>` via `setSelectionRange`.

Chromium is not the fastest when it comes to setting large amounts of text :) (such as > 10,000 characters) and basically stalls all the time. Apparently, Electron already has some knowledge about when a screen reader is attached to the main process window (in C++ code). Is it possible to expose this as a getter + event when it first happens in the `electron` API.

We could then maintain this costly `<textarea>` sync only when really needed.

atom/browser/api/atom_api_app.cc
if (name == "appData")
    return brightray::DIR_APP_DATA;
  else if (name == "userData")
    return brightray::DIR_USER_DATA;
  else if (name == "cache")
    return brightray::DIR_CACHE;
  else if (name == "userCache")
    return brightray::DIR_USER_CACHE;
  else if (name == "home")
    return base::DIR_HOME;
  else if (name == "temp")
    return base::DIR_TEMP;
  else if (name == "userDesktop" || name == "desktop")
    return base::DIR_USER_DESKTOP;
  else if (name == "exe")
    return base::FILE_EXE;
  else if (name == "module")
    return base::FILE_MODULE;
  else if (name == "documents")
    return chrome::DIR_USER_DOCUMENTS;