Hi everyone,
I am looking for an RSS reader that works in IOS and windows. I'm seeing a ton of options, so i wanted to see if people have particular reccomendations.
Thanks in advance!
I'll follow this topic for sure. In my experience a accessible krossplatform rss reader is difficult to find. I hope something like that exists.
I guess you have to use some service on the web with a accessible interface and a ceparate app on IOS who talks to that service.
Lire and Fiery Feeds are both pritty accessible IOs rss readers who are able to talk to some services.
Personally I use inoreader, together with both lire and fiery feeds. Inoreader keeps the feeds in sync, their mobile interface on the web is usable on desktop.
In fact I found this topic with the help of inoreader. Which also gives me a l tons of automation options.
An other great one could be theoldreader. check it out on theoldreader.com talks to atleast lire on mobile but I found it kind of slow.
A friend of mine wrote An Otter RSS Reader. I just gave it a quick test and it does have descriptions of the buttons in VoiceOver but I'm not a regular VoiceOver user so I don't know what else specifically to look for.
None of the feed aggregator services I've used have great web interfaces in regards to accessibility. However, I would still recommend that you struggle past the issues to subscribe to Feedly or Inoreader's free tier. Once you've got the account setup, all of the day-to-day tasks of managing your feed subscriptions can be handled through whatever app you choose to use.
Going this route will allow you to use the best and most accessible app on each platform, rather than having to find one that works on both platforms. The result is likely to be far better.
For iOS, I would happily recommend Lire, Fiery Feeds or NetNewsWire. The choice will depend upon your needs.
Yeah, using a web service (public or self-hosted) and communicating with it using your choice of clients makes good sense. I use lire on macOS and iOS but they both support iCloud sync; that's not an option on Windows. I would be interested to know what people thought of tiny-tiny-RSS or MiniFlux, as self-hosted aggregators, as regards their respective web interfaces, for screen reader accessibility. I'd certainly go self-hosted for preference, because privacy.
FreshRSS is another option for a free, self-hostable feed aggregator..
I use it with Fiery Feeds on iOS and Mac (and sometimes lire to mix things up), and this combo works well.
I don't recall any significant accessibility issues with installing and setting up FreshRSS, but it was a couple of years ago so I might have forgotten some niggles.
I don't use the FreshRRSS web interface for reading articles or managing subscriptions. I just check in on it every few months to make sure that there isn't an update. The rest of the time it just ticks away on the server, grabbing and synchronising articles, leaving me to simply read them in whichever is my current reader of choice.
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I use inoreader
Hi,
I'll follow this topic for sure. In my experience a accessible krossplatform rss reader is difficult to find. I hope something like that exists.
I guess you have to use some service on the web with a accessible interface and a ceparate app on IOS who talks to that service.
Lire and Fiery Feeds are both pritty accessible IOs rss readers who are able to talk to some services.
Personally I use inoreader, together with both lire and fiery feeds. Inoreader keeps the feeds in sync, their mobile interface on the web is usable on desktop.
In fact I found this topic with the help of inoreader. Which also gives me a l tons of automation options.
An other great one could be theoldreader. check it out on theoldreader.com talks to atleast lire on mobile but I found it kind of slow.
Keep us posted what you find.
Thanks, vincent.
A friend of mine wrote An…
A friend of mine wrote An Otter RSS Reader. I just gave it a quick test and it does have descriptions of the buttons in VoiceOver but I'm not a regular VoiceOver user so I don't know what else specifically to look for.
My vote
None of the feed aggregator services I've used have great web interfaces in regards to accessibility. However, I would still recommend that you struggle past the issues to subscribe to Feedly or Inoreader's free tier. Once you've got the account setup, all of the day-to-day tasks of managing your feed subscriptions can be handled through whatever app you choose to use.
Going this route will allow you to use the best and most accessible app on each platform, rather than having to find one that works on both platforms. The result is likely to be far better.
For iOS, I would happily recommend Lire, Fiery Feeds or NetNewsWire. The choice will depend upon your needs.
Yeah, using a web service …
Yeah, using a web service (public or self-hosted) and communicating with it using your choice of clients makes good sense. I use lire on macOS and iOS but they both support iCloud sync; that's not an option on Windows. I would be interested to know what people thought of tiny-tiny-RSS or MiniFlux, as self-hosted aggregators, as regards their respective web interfaces, for screen reader accessibility. I'd certainly go self-hosted for preference, because privacy.
Re: Yeah, using a web service …
FreshRSS is another option for a free, self-hostable feed aggregator..
I use it with Fiery Feeds on iOS and Mac (and sometimes lire to mix things up), and this combo works well.
I don't recall any significant accessibility issues with installing and setting up FreshRSS, but it was a couple of years ago so I might have forgotten some niggles.
I don't use the FreshRRSS web interface for reading articles or managing subscriptions. I just check in on it every few months to make sure that there isn't an update. The rest of the time it just ticks away on the server, grabbing and synchronising articles, leaving me to simply read them in whichever is my current reader of choice.
https://freshrss.org/