Comment by mythz

I upvoted you to combat your downvote because your initial paragraphs was a very reasonable description of the journey of a lot of hobby projects and its unreasonable to expect alpha apps (built using a GUI FX in active development) racing to get out an MVP is going to have accessibility nailed out of the gate.

Your last paragraph for a magic screen reader is that it simply doesn't exist, so in its absence you need to use a GUI FX that supports accessibility for it to be accessible. If all the screen reader can see is a rendered bitmap they're not going to be able to identify what's a UI control or how to interact with it, which group of pixels is decorative and which is functional or how it will be able to determine the difference between a real App and a screenshot of it? With the recent real-time AI powering "copy text from image" maybe a generic reader is going to be more advanced than what's historically been possible.

But I don't really know how screen readers work, I'm assuming they need to work in tandem with GUI FX's which is able to describe the purpose and roles of its different UI elements, so if you use native OS controls it's going to be able to know how to inspect different controls of running Apps and how to send events to them.