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What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).

Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:

Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.

XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.

IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go.

I was in in the middle of running this month’s mentor meeting in Drupal Slack, which I usually need to run from the web interface when all of the messages in the channel vanished. This persisted after refreshing the page.

Notifications still popped up fine.

Luckily I was able to finish pasting in the meeting agenda using Weechat in the terminal thanks to the wee-slack plugin.

I’ve never had that happen. I assume it’s a memory issue, which is why I started using Weechat in the first place.

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@kern #weechat (#irc #cli client) has a relay plugin¹, providing different protocols to support "remote interfaces"² (mobile apps amongst them). These remote clients connect directly to weechat, so there's no need to use #ssh (but protocol-level #tls #encryption is supported). It works pretty well, for me at least.

¹) weechat.org/files/doc/weechat/
²) weechat.org/about/interfaces/

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