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380 points culinary-robot | 3 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust.

Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera.

My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

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ClawsOnPaws ◴[15 Oct 25 18:58 UTC] No.45596947[source]▶
I'd love to test this, however it seems to not be accessible with screen readers. I assume this is because of the GUI library not supporting accessibility. I found an open issue about this on the Iced GitHub where in 2024 it was mentioned that the version after next should support it, and the last comment was in february of this year (https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552)

I bookmarked this so hopefully once that effort gets further along I can give it a try!

I figured I'd leave this comment so that some folks can see that there are real people even on HN who require these features and that accessibility work is always appreciated. We definitely exist :)

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1. nicoburns ◴[15 Oct 25 22:31 UTC] No.45599106[source]▶
Iced also has a roadmap: https://whimsical.com/roadmap-iced-7vhq6R35Lp3TmYH4WeYwLM

Screen reader accessibility is at least on it, although not until the release after next.

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2. ClawsOnPaws ◴[16 Oct 25 08:24 UTC] No.45602802[source]▶
Heh, that roadmap is also not accessible to screen readers, at least on FireFox. That's unfortunate. But I understand it's a big undertaking with little reward for most people. I do think there are UI libraries with AccessKit integration, egui I believe?

Ah well. I'll check back on it every now and then either way.

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3. sudahtigabulan ◴[16 Oct 25 09:47 UTC] No.45603389[source]▶
> that roadmap is also not accessible to screen readers

It also has terrible navigation on mobile, even for sighted users. I gave up after a few seconds of trying to use it.