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		mwcampbell on Nov 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Standalone Signal Desktop Non-native widgets can certainly be accessible with screen readers and other assistive technologies. But it's a lot of work. You'll need to implement the UI Automation provider API for Windows, AT-SPI for desktop Linux, and the Cocoa accessibility API for Mac. And you probably won't get any of them right the first time. So I think it would have been better not to create a custom toolkit.

dilap on Nov 1, 2017 [–]

It's a huge task, sure, but someone needs to take on huge tasks from time to time (and Go does not currently have any good UI toolkit story). :-)

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