I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings

Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by Zetaphor on Saturday May 02, 2026 @01:43AM (#47983654)

I don't think the accessibility story on Linux is comprehensive enough to make this possible unfortunately. Especially with Wayland. One advantage Mac apps have is they're all targeting the same underlying OS primitives, which is the layer their accessibility platform lives at.

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by tuukkah on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:33AM (#47983916)

Quote from a sibling comment:

  - macOS: Accessibility API
  - Windows: UI Automation
  - Linux: AT-SPI

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by Arainach on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:32AM (#47984214)

The levels of support are radically different. Compositors, window managers, UI frameworks, and apps all have mixed and inconsistent levels of support such that the overall experience is that you simply cannot rely on using a Linux system via accessibility.

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by gvkhna on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:51PM (#47989825)

Unfortunately AT-SPI support is very hit or miss, mostly miss. To get it useable for this required a huge amount of modification. See my other comment for context.

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by 9879875665876 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:33AM (#47983911)

There is AT-SPI2:

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by Zetaphor on Saturday May 02, 2026 @04:10PM (#47989999)

I'm a heavy Linux user interested in accessibility and I didn't even know this existed.

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