Post #3623323
2026-04-06 19:34 UTC
@matt@toot.cafe Sorry, I was opaque. i wanted to know if Rust would efficiently bind to something like Tolk, SRAL, or AO2. SRAL ended up being what I settled on. I did that because to keep with the Petzold Aesthetic, The tab control isn't in the tab order, but I still wanted a screen reader to tell someone that they were switching tabs. I went with SRAL, even though it was a les eficient option than UIA, as a test for future ideas I have.
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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-04-06 19:36
@nick@hkc.social I'm inclined to view those direct screen reader APIs as kind of cheating. They don't really work with Narrator, nor with Braille, particularly for things like announcing things that should naturally be in the parent chain of a newly focused thing, like a tab change. Cool experiment, though.