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by mwcampbell 1095 days ago
> Especially accessibility really isn't as hard as people sometimes make out on this forum

Just to make sure I'm not being one of those people: What AccessKit [1] has now, across Windows, macOS, and Linux, took roughly six person-months of work. We still need to support more widget types, especially list views, tables (closely related), and tree views, but we do already have text editing covered on Windows and macOS. Perhaps it helps that I'm an accessibility expert, especially on Windows. Anecdotally, it seems that implementing UIA from scratch is daunting for non-experts. But I guess in the big picture it's really not that hard.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit