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!

#MastodonAndroid #accessibility #NEISvoid #Disabled #Disability #Android #DisabledMastodon

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.

Part 2/3: My Instance section lets you see announcements, trending hashtags, and follow suggestions.

My App section holds settings, timeline management, and cache. Settings customize timelines, notifications, interface, compose, privacy, themes, languages, and export/import settings. It has all the accessible settings that other apps have plus more for how app runs/looks. Very robust; love the slide rather than toggle options.

Translate messages feature works fairly well with most languages.

Part 3/3:

Accessibility: Sadly, my screenreader really struggled. Due how timelines load, this can cut off the screenreader mid-sentence, which requires 2 to 3 tries to read a post. It failed to read image descriptions unless I clicked on image twice: once to focus on image and twice to load alt text.

Alt Text: It's easy to add the alt text, but a bit harder to access it once posted.

Recommend? Yes and no - until screenreader bugs are dealt with, it's usability for blind/low-sight is limited.

More on #ScreenReaders:

The screenreader read the best on #Tusky and Yuito.

Mastodon and #Tooot was hit and miss: often misread usernames as generic placeholders. Alt Text wasn't consistently read without prompting.

#FediLab, due to how its cache and loading works, kept interrupting the screenreader. Once cache is stored and loaded, the screenreader did a bit better on FediLab, but it didn't auto read Alt Text without my prompting it.

Hopefully, this review inspires app creators to fix this!

Next up:

I'll collate these posts into a blog eventually.

I also plan to go through and do reviews on PInafore and the Mastodon fork that was mentioned. If y'all have any other Android apps for me to test or if you want further information on the specifics of the settings of apps already reviewed, let me know! I'll detail them further. :)

#WebBased apps:

Pinafore is a browser app that you can set up for your phone. It has a sleek design and accessibility options similar to Tusky. There is various themes that adjust colors to aid with readability.

#Accessibility: Screenreader hiccuped a few times, but overall read posts and alttext well. The alt text shows up easily.

You have a home timeline, notifications, and third timeline (can chose local, federated, or list from settings).

Recommend? Yes. See: https://front-end.social/@AmeliaBR/109474368379141637

Halycon https://halcyon.anoxinon.de/login

This browser app was designed to look like Twitter, which it does admirably well. I found it a bit slow on my phone but it worked fine on my laptop browsers. The accessibility options were not as robust as Pinafore.

Accessibility: I couldn't get my screenreader to work with it. I may fiddle around and see if it's on my end or the apps' end. Alt text showed similar to how Twitter shows it.

Recommend? Not unless you really like Twitter's design.