🌲 Accessibility Feedback

[onpon4]

What do you want to see?

I'm not entirely satisfied calling this a "feature request" because accessibility isn't merely a feature, but "bug" didn't seem to me to fit either. In any case, it seems to me that Revite doesn't do anything to help with screen reader accessibility.

I'm sighted and don't depend on a screen reader to read things, so I'm not the best person to give specific advice on how to properly make Revite accessible, but I noticed two problems:

1. No landmarks, headings, etc of any kind are used. These are essential to screen reader use because they're how keyboard navigation throughout a page is done. Discord, for example, has a level 3 heading for each message (indicating the display name of the message author and the time it was posted), and landmarks which help locate navigation sections and the main content. Revolt, on the other hand, just has a whole lot of div tags (which the screen reader generally doesn't know what to do with).
2. Custom emoji alt text seems poorly thought out. I came across a custom emoji that, when I got to it, caused the screen reader to read out a whole crapton of numbers. This is not useful to a screen reader user. Using the name of the emoji (as is done with standard emojis) would be much better.

These are just what I saw at a glance, and I think a more thorough screen reader accessibility audit from someone more knowledgeable than me would be warranted. The open source alternative to Discord should be more accessible than Discord, not less.

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