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> Electron is the opposite of the 'handmade philosophy', but is still not accessible.

On the contrary, Chromium probably has the single most mature and robust implementation of accessibility APIs across platforms. It's true that not all Electron apps are accessible, but it's way easier to make an Electron app accessible than to make a handmade GUI accessible.

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Yeah, ok, but the problem is the same: even though accessibility APIs might be provided (this time by Electron, not the OS), applications don't make use of them.

Sure, we still have to fight that uphill battle. But it's way easier for a web application to implement ARIA than for a Win32 application with a custom control to implement UI Automation. Maybe that problem is unique to Windows.

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