AccessKit/accesskit on Hacker News

…a screen reader user to help with testing your toolkit. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/1025127/ [1] https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit [2] https://github.com/RDMurray/WDL/tree/accesskit and my fork of accesskit with some features and…

comment by RobMurray · 2026-05-19 · in Apple unveils new accessibility features

…from System76 staff <3 https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552 And TIL about AccessKit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by avtar · 2025-12-07 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)

…push for "Full & Equal Enjoyment". That doesn't sound like being forced to use ramps to me. [0]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit [1]: https://youtu.be/hxf-fIubkMs?si=Cya66U7KQBpvLU-R [2]: https://www.accessibility.works/blog/alternat…

comment by apitman · 2024-12-19 · in Show HN: Brisk – Cross-Platform C++ GUI Framework: Declarative, Reactive, Fast

…to be 'smart' and know to only read the description initially. I'm hoping eventually AccessKit ( https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit ) will be mature enough to use though.

comment by kevingadd · 2024-08-27 · in Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library

…to do be done to make it work well (but that's also true of Blitz in general). We're building upon https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit which provides a cross-platform abstraction over the OS accessibility APIs.

comment by nicoburns · 2024-08-12 · in Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

…I’m not sure if it could work in the context of a TUI but it might be a great starting point! https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by ericwood · 2024-08-11 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)

Sounds like AccessKit [0] to me [0]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by bartekpacia · 2024-07-06 · in Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

Slint uses https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit to provide cross-platform a11y.

comment by pygy_ · 2024-02-05 · in Deno in 2023

Depends on the backend. With our main backend (the winit backend) it uses AccessKit [ https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit ] With our Qt backend (used for the Qt native style on Linux), it uses Qt accessibility infrastructure.

comment by ogoffart · 2024-02-02 · in Slint GUI Toolkit

…make a better platform. Projects like AccessKit are a really great step in the right direction https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by zengid · 2024-01-09 · in Missing the Point of WebAssembly

…scratch is daunting for non-experts. But I guess in the big picture it's really not that hard. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-06-23 · in Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

…but I don't think they would work particularly well for something as complex as a code editor. [1] https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by miki123211 · 2023-06-21 · in JetBrains Noria

…acceptable to the most strident anti-bloat curmudgeons, so they'll make their UIs accessible. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-04-27 · in Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world

Yes! egui uses https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit for accessibility

comment by emilern · 2023-04-27 · in Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world

…the egui integration, and Emil (the primary egui developer) for being so receptive to my PRs. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-04-25 · in GUI development with Rust and GTK 4

…does text layout (which Taffy explicitly considers out of scope) - https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit does accessibility - https://github.com/servo/rust-cssparser does value-agnostic CSS parsing (it will parse the general

comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-12 · in We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

…(UI layout algorithms) - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing) - https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs) In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-su…

comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-03 · in XUL Layout is gone

…functions. This may influence how I eventually implement a Java binding for AccessKit [1]. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-03-20 · in JEP 442: Foreign Function and Memory API (Third Preview)

…tree updates, which can be full or incremental, and AccessKit retains the accessibility tree. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-03-10 · in Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS

…over those APIs. For the latter, my AccessKit [1] project might be worth looking at. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2023-03-03 · in The JavaScript era happened because we were fed a line

a11y There are efforts to support a cross platform accessibility library: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by iTokio · 2023-02-07 · in GPU-Backed User Interfaces

…GUI for Rust, and I just released 0.20. It's a big release! There is now support for AccessKit ( https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit ) which brings accessibility to egui (a first for an immediate mode GUI?). There is also better table…

comment by emilern · 2022-12-08 · in Egui 0.20 Released

…you can enable in the "Backend" panel of egui.rs. There is ongoing work to integrate AccessKit ( https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit ) which will improve things significantly.

comment by emilern · 2022-10-18 · in Why Rust?

…project has been inactive for a while; I'm back to work on it in earnest starting this month. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-07-15 · in Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs

…GUIs, as one can see in my proof-of-concept integration with the Rust egui toolkit [2]. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit [2]: https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-07-04 · in UIs are not pure functions of the model (2018)

…on Windows, but it looks like you're already dependent on cgo on Windows (unlike, say, Gio). [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit I know I haven't yet done much with it this year. Hopefully I'll start doing substantial work on this…

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-06-18 · in Fyne, a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Go

…Cue the cliches about younger generations (like mine) being soft compared to our predecessors. [1] https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (it's too late now, I'm committed to doing it in Rust)

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-06-11 · in I don't want to go to Chel-C

…be ready. I'm hoping to have usable Windows and Mac implementations by the end of this year. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-06-08 · in Sunsetting Atom

…on a11y! Glad to hear it! I'm working on a Rust GUI accessibility library that might interest you: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit If you'd like to email me so we can compare implementation approaches and perhaps avoid duplicated…

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-04-05 · in Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

…full tree every frame. There just has to be some way of keeping node IDs stable across frames. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-03-27 · in Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library

…non-Windows platforms into account. [1]: https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit [2]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-03-26 · in Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library

…feature, though I can't remember now if that bit was there in the original. Sorry if it was. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-03-03 · in Why enterprise software is bloated

…are really hard though, right? I'm finally doing something about the accessibility issue: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit Still have a long way to go though.

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-03-02 · in CXX-Qt: Safe Rust bindings for Qt

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928956 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928945 [3]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-01-14 · in Big Time Public License

…text editing alone. And that's just multi-line plain text; hypertext is way more complicated. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2022-01-13 · in Jevons Paradox

…a cross-platform API to make this less tedious, but I'm not sure how far along that effort is. 1: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by wongarsu · 2021-12-15 · in Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)

…It helps that my current funding source for that project also wants it to be open source. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2021-12-12 · in Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

…I fear I might have made more progress toward my actual goal by now if I had gone with C++. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2021-11-26 · in Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020)

…GUIs. There's some ongoing work to change that state of things[1], but it's far from complete. [1] https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by miki123211 · 2021-11-21 · in Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini

For those (like me) just hearing about AccessKit, I assume it's this: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit Neat! I really like the Rust ethos of creating modular cross-platform adopters (e.g. winit, getrandom), and from a brief skim this…

comment by paulgb · 2021-08-27 · in Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

…long-term solution to the social problem of trying to get everyone to implement accessibility. [1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

comment by mwcampbell · 2021-08-17 · in Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

…check out my plan and what little code I have so far (really just data structure definitions) here: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit Edit: I'll be spending next week working on a prototype, so I'm confident that I'll soon have…

comment by mwcampbell · 2021-07-09 · in Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust