@thenexusofprivacy For the iOS side of things, I can recommend FediText and Mona.

I echo FediText and Mona on iOS, but for accessible software on Windows I'd recommend TW Blue, which also has GoToSocial support. Tweesecake is popular on the desktop too. To replace Penaphore, use Semaphore and Enafore. @thenexusofprivacy

@The Nexus of Privacy It'd generally be interesting to see which Web interfaces of/for which server applications are how accessible. Experience almost entirely only exists for the default Mastodon Web UI. I think I've also read something about Misskey and Sharkey.

Information about accessibility for not-logged-in visitors would be a good start.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #A11y #Accessibility

@thenexusofprivacy Try https://elk.zone/home for a good web UI for Mastodon

@thenexusofprivacy Pachli (Android client) seems to take accessibility seriously, see: https://mastodon.social/@accessibleandroid/111862516899019220

@thenexusofprivacy I am totally blind and use both NVDA and Talkback. I am not a Mastodon user, but I am on Friendica, which is compatible. Tweesecake is 100% accessible and was designed for the blind. It is a Windows program. Pachli and Tusky for Android are also accessible. I believe Pachli is based on Tusky, but with a focus on accessibility. I may be wrong on the second part. As someone who uses my phone with an external keyboard, I do find it annoying that I must use the touchscreen in Pachli to edit posts, and that it takes several steps to do it. Plus, there is no easy keyboard shortcut to go from the top to the bottom of a list, so that, if I am viewing old posts, I have to go through all of them to reach the top. Enafore is related to Semaphore. I believe it's the version that is now being updated. However, while I have heard it claimed that it is accessible, I have no idea how to edit my posts (a feature it has which Semaphore doesn't). Furthermore, When I hit "reply", a dialogue opens, but there is no edit box, and half of the time, when I go to the site, I don't see the edit box in which I'm supposed to write my post.

As it stands now, my suggestion would be to use Tweesecake for Windows (100% accessible, but only for 64-bit versions), and Pachli for Android (with the knowledge that it can be frustrating to use with a keyboard). Semaphore is good as a web-based client, but without the ability to edit posts. The two things I would like to see in a new client are 32-bit support for Windows (including older versions), and a feature that I can't seem to find anywhere. Namely, the ability to view posts with their comments, instead of having them scattered everywhere. If I see five separate posts, I want to click on them individually to read their respective comments, not see twenty comments from all five posts all over the place.

@thenexusofprivacy Regarding mobile apps, @MonaApp is by far the most accessible mastodon app for iOS, at least from the point of view of a blind user using #VoiceOver. Ice Cubes is also pretty good as a free alternative, I haven't used it in a while because of Mona but assuming it's still going.

@thenexusofprivacy Tusky on Android and Mona for iOS are among the best in terms of #a11y

PS: Semaphore is great as a PWA