Re:Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
by scarface74 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:11PM
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And will it look and act like a native app? Will it support all of Apple’s built in accessibility affordances that a developer can get for free by using Apple’s native toolkits (and Microsoft’s)?
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Re:Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:41PM
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a11y is definitely a critical and often overlooked issue. And this is one area where I find myself in 110% agreement with the title of TFA: Stop Building Closed Ecosystems.
If the Apple and MS a11y frameworks were not so distinct from one another, wrapping them in a cross-platform layer would be much easier. But they couldn't be bothered, largely because they both have enough users whose priorities match your own: are the apps on the platform good enough for them. The incentives to standardize a11y at the API level across OS platforms is a tiny fraction of the incentive to standardize e.g. WebGPU.