So because I have gone temporarily off my rocker, I'm working on an #xmpp client using #dotnet 10 and WPF, with artalk-xmpp for XMPP, libsignal for #OMEMO, and prism for screen reader output where needed. I'm only an evening into it, and I can already tell that OMEMO is going to be the source of complicated, inexplicable, and unreproducible bug reports for decades to come. It's still not as overcomplicated as #matrix, though.
@debacle Sadly the accessibility infrastructure is poor enough I’d be ripping out and rebuilding it entirely. And it’s not using an up to date library. So I’d also be rewriting the xmpp parts.