rusty_a11y

rusty_a11y is an open-source accessibility helper toolkit for Rust UI chrome -- labelled glyphs, ARIA live regions, and status announcements as small HTML string builders -- pure Rust, no DOM crate and no JS. By default installs rusty_alloc (opt out below). Pair with rusty_symbols and rusty_tokens.

Status -- v0.2.0. Pin rusty_a11y = "0.2" from crates.io (or git tag v0.2.0). Requires alloc (normal std apps already have it). no_std + alloc ready.

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The headline

Chrome that screen readers can hear. Glyphs get role="img" names; sync/saved/offline updates ride polite or assertive live regions -- without pulling a browser DOM binding into your crate graph.

Dimension	Bare glyph / silent UI	rusty_a11y	Goal
Glyph naming	none	label::img	a11y
Status updates	silent	live / status	a11y
Escaping	easy to forget	attribute / text escape	safe
Allocator	system / C	rusty_alloc by default	opt-out
Dependencies	DOM crates	none when opted out	maintain
License	mixed	MIT	--

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Install

rusty_a11y = "0.2"
# bring your own allocator:
# rusty_a11y = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
# hardened:
# rusty_a11y = { version = "0.2", features = ["secure"] }

Feature	Default	Provides
rusty-alloc	yes	rusty_alloc via rusty_alloc_default
secure	no	enables rusty-alloc + hardening

MSRV: 1.73. Combining with sibling crate defaults is safe (shared allocator seam).

Quick start

use rusty_a11y::{label, live, status};

fn verified() -> String {
    // Often paired with rusty_symbols::status::OK in apps
    label::img("\u{2713}", "verified")
}

fn syncing() -> String {
    live::polite("Syncing")
}

fn saved() -> String {
    status::announce(status::Kind::Saved)
}

cargo test

Features

• label -- img(glyph, aria_label), named(visible, aria_label).
• live -- polite / assertive live-region HTML.
• status -- Kind::{Saved,Syncing,Offline,Error,Ready} + announce / announce_error.
• Guards -- doctests + unit tests for escapes and ARIA attrs.

Capability table

Capability	Status
label::img / named	done
live::polite / assertive	done
status::announce	done
Quote / HTML escaping	done
no_std + alloc + wasm	done
crates.io	done v0.1.0

Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  rusty_a11y                                              │
│                                                          │
│  label   -- img / named                               ✅ │
│  live    -- polite / assertive regions                ✅ │
│  status  -- Kind + announce / announce_error          ✅ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Northern star: WAI-ARIA patterns for chrome (labelled graphics, live regions, status). Document-engine / canvas a11y is out of scope.

Sibling toolkits: thoth · rusty_tokens.

Platform support

Platform	Status
Windows	yes
macOS	yes
Linux	yes
Web (Dioxus / browsers)	yes
WASM (wasm32-unknown-unknown)	yes (alloc)

No OS APIs. Inject the returned HTML strings into WebView / Dioxus via dangerous_inner_html or equivalent.

Remade With Rust

Remade With Rust (Mata Network) rebuilds essential tooling in Rust -- memory safety, predictable performance, permissive license.

-> github.com/remade-with-rust

Family: thoth · rusty_tokens · rusty_a11y

License

MIT -- LICENSE-MIT.

Trademark

"Remade With Rust", "Mata", and "Mata Network" are marks of Mata Network.