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Are there any options, besides Qt, that are accessibility friendly? I don't consider anything but Qt for this very reason (GTK on Windows/MacOS is not accessibility-aware or whatever you want to call it, to my knowledge.)

And I generally like Qt, but I can see how you might consider it heavy and a bit unwieldy.

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I believe that .NET MAUI, when it drops, will be accessibility-friendly from the get-go. Of course, if Qt is heavy for one's needs, then I imagine .NET is, too. And of course there's Electron.

My impression, from looking into this a bit a few months ago, is that cross-platform accessibility is just a huge effort, and may be beyond the reach of projects that lack commercial backing.

What makes a toolkit accessibility-aware? Is it not enough to support native widgets?

Perhaps more technical than you intended, but for linux it interfaces to screen-readers via AT-SPI via DBus (Or you can use the older libatk -- iirc). Also as other people mentioned, high contrast, big text, and other specific display settings have to be figured out from the information passed from the OS / display server / wm.

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