The first step is to make sure it’s keyboard accessible, since that’s how blind people will use your software. Tab, arrows, space, enter should get you to most things and trigger controls. Ctrl + tab for some things, F6 typically moves focus between panes.

Apart from that, you can always turn on your own screen reader. Windows comes with Narrator, macOS with VoiceOver and most Linux distros will come with Orca. Mind you, you’ll have to learn a lot and the fact you can’t do something doesn’t mean an experienced screen reader user can’t, but you’ll get some feedback pretty quickly.

I dunno, I’m often close to a shipping port and see roll-on/roll-off ships all the time. And if I see them, you can bet there’s a lot more there I’m missing. Haha.

I’m not really a shipping professional or nerd, but are we maybe comparing apples to oranges here? “Look, this orange is incredibly hard, tastes sour and has no pith or juice.” Yeah, it’s a pretty good apple though.

They may be greenwashing, but we should also be producing and consuming locally a lot more, so a future focused on smaller efficient ships might be a good thing. Or just alternatives for the industries that can use them.

It’s not about Rust, it’s about GPUI, which was developed for the Zed text editor. Go look at the repos for both and you’ll notice they only started considering accessibility at all after blind people opened tickets and they only added the very basic infrastructure required when a blind developer took it open himself to do it.

“Bolted on” didn’t even begin to tell the story.

I haven’t messed with Tauri, but I’m not very hopeful. My best case scenario right now is for Discord to continue upstream accessibility work. To be clear, there is an edit for GPUI, but it still seems to be in early stages.

Speaking of framework maturity, last I looked at OBS on Qt6 it still had significant issues. You need the OS accessibility API, the framework to hook into it and the developer knowledge on how to leverage that. It’s a lot of ifs that can fail early.

Fun! I’ll get to moderate a Discord server for blind people that blind people can’t use on desktop!

Seriously, anything on GPUI reads as “empty window” to screen readers.

Wasn’t there a story about people calling curl devs because of car issues?

For what it’s worth, I’m sure the SQLite devs could help somebody clean up their temp files. They just really shouldn’t have to.