Android Mastodon Apps: 1/5
1. "Official" Mastodon app, found when you search for Mastodon on Android/Google app store. It is very limited and does not show the federated timeline. It also doesn't allow multiple tabs -- I could only get three tabs working: Home timeline, local timeline, and notifications. My lists didn't show in app.
Accessibility: Screenreader did not read posts smoothly, some parts were garbled. Inputting image description was difficult and hard to pull up.
Recommend? No.
2. Yuito is a fork of Tusky. Can set to way more than 5 tabs: multiple hashtags, lists, home, local, federated, notification tabs. It has adjustable font size, dark/light themes, positioning tab toolbar, turn off colorful gradients on CW posts, show indicator for bots, and other accessible features. Has a limited bandwidth and wellbeing mode.
Accessibility: screenreader read posts well including user names. Image descriptions easy to add and view. Easy to navigate and post.
Recommend? Yes.
3. Tusky. All the features I mentioned in Yuito is also on Tusky. However, Tusky limits the tab count to five: home, local, federated, notifications, and final tab can be hashtags or lists. It has all the same options as Yuito, except it does not have a low bandwidth mode.
Accessibility: screenreader read posts well and smoothly. Image description easy to add and read. Posts are easy to write and interface easy to navigate.
Recommend? Yes.
4. Tooot recently debuted on Android. Posts don't have clear edges like Tusky and Yuito, so they blend together more. Options for accessibility is limited to only changing font size and dark/light theme. Read more for long toots is not intuitive (click on "long post x more lines" to expand).
Accessibility: screenreader was unable to read people's usernames, not a smooth read. Image descriptions show as semi transparent "Alt" in pic corner.
Recommend? No due to limited accessibility options.
5/5
Those are the four main ones on Android that I tested. If y'all would like me to test others, let me know. Also, let me know if you got questions on accessibility features. It was hard to fit all my observations into 500 characters.
I hope this helps!
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I'll get right on that! I do note that it's the paid one. The others I checked were free. I'll add my review to this thread once I check accessibility features. :)
Thanks for that. The set up is actually very easy, once you install fedilab it tells you which app to install to get the push notifications and there's no other steps.
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That's all good to know. I went ahead and got it downloaded. Thank you for offer to drop the fee my way!
There is a lot of features here that others apps don't have. Now I'm gonna go thru and test them to see how they fare. This might take me a bit.
@SARS2isAirborne @RonniesaurusHex
And it's up! https://disabled.social/@Aaidanbird/109474329374165984
I admit, I really do like FediLab, but I may submit the screenreader bugs through their bug report menu and see if they can fix that eventually.
I feel like the screenreader test really makes or breaks these reviews.
Per request, FediLab! This will be a longer review as there is a lot of features to this app. So part 1/3: Available on GooglePlay for around 2.74. Can download free through F-Droid but will need to install a separate app in F-Droid for push notifications. Fedilab is packed full of options, far more than any app I've reviewed so far. It's highly customizable. The left-side menu has a section for My Account, where you can pull up various lists, filters, followed tags, drafts, interactions.
Thank you, that's really helpful.
The Bird
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