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0 pointsmiki1232115y ago0 comments

> I'm in a position where I'd like to develop a better client for Bitwarden

Beware that, if you use GTK, you exclude a certain segment of the population who need Accessibility and aren't on Linux. This definitely includes screen reader users, but probably also users of voice recognition, switch control etc. QT works much better here. This is yet another tradeoff to make.

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cycloptic5y ago

The accessibility system in GTK is being redesigned in GTK4: https://blog.gtk.org/2020/02/17/gtk-hackfest-2020-roadmap-an...

The changes should make it similar to the way Qt works and should make it easier to plug in a Windows/Mac a11y backend. If there is interest in implementing/maintaining this then please help out if you're able.

awalton5y ago

What kind of misinformation are you trying to spread here? GTK+ has accessibility built into the toolkit itself - it's not optional, and it's always on. In fact, GTK+ had it before Qt did - ATK was written back in 2001 to be a part of GTK+, and the screen reader Orca is written to use GTK+ and the platform agnostic AT-SPI layer. It would take a full ten years for Qt to add an implementation here.

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