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Discord is rewriting its entire desktop client in Rust with a native GPUI-based interface (dropping both Electron and React Native) (lemmy.ml)
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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

How would a rewrite cause this to happen? Is there something about Rust frameworks for the desktop that exclude accessibility features?

I’ve been working primarily with C#, but none of their frameworks exclude accessibility features… would be shocked AF if Rust frameworks just left that all out.

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I checked the gpui crate and it has an accessibility module that uses AccessKit, but I can't say if it actually works.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, but this is Rust, not some single-dev pet project. You would expect a fully fleshed out framework to have accessibility features built in as first-class features, not some randomly bolted-on afterthought.

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

this is Rust, not some single-dev pet project

The programming language has absolutely nothing to do with the size or maturity of a GUI library using it.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Without knowing what framework is in use its hard to say. Hell electron had accessibilty issues for a while

[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

they literally explained the problem in the second sentence of their comment:

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