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by mwcampbell 2983 days ago
Unfortunately, this port seems to lack accessibility for blind people and others that require assistive technology. My conclusion is based on the demos linked elsewhere on this thread. [0] I have no idea how to make a conventional GUI toolkit accessible with ARIA, but I hope the Qt developers figure it out.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I tested on Windows with a screen reader and Chrome.

[0]: https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/
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kuschku 2983 days ago
Accessibility like that likely won't be possible, as the only way to get accessibility in browsers is with the DOM, which is very limited in functionality.

If you wish to have accessible applications, you'll need to run the native applications instead.

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mwcampbell 2983 days ago
What if some application developers don't make a native version available? Accessibility should be the default on all platforms, not something that application developers have to go out of their way to support.
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kuschku 2983 days ago
> Accessibility should be the default on all platforms, not something that application developers have to go out of their way to support.

Complain to the browser developers then, they’re the reason why this is so hard for Qt running on the web.

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