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I've long been curious how non native UI libraries may assist with accessibility frameworks. Does anyone have any good resources?

• layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
  On macOS one would create a hierarchy of custom accessibility objects representing the application's state via NSAccessibilityElements: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsaccessibilityelement?language=objc https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsaccessibi...
  • dagmx 6y ago
    Thanks. That makes sense.
• pqb 6y ago
  I have no experience with assistive software but I suppose non-native UI libraries should be using native OS toolkit (e.g. [0][1]) or specific APIs libraries, which targets NVDA, JAWS, Orca and others (this is one of the same idea shared in the one answer on SO [2]). I guess web browsers and other native GUIs just do that behind the scene. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibility [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_UI_Automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_UI_Automation [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65168795/make-non-native-application-accessible-to-screen-readers-for-the-visually-impair https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65168795/make-non-native... Edit: IAccessible2 [3] seems to be compliant to both Windows and Linux. Whether Apple AppKit provides specific accessibility-focused UI elements [4]. Flutter has also similar one, it is called Semantics [5]. [3]: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/accessibility/iaccessible2/start https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/accessibility/iaccessible2/... [4]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsaccessibility?language=objc https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsaccessibi... [5]: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Semantics-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Semantics-class.html
  • dagmx 6y ago
    Thanks for the links