Hello everyone,
Because the official Telegram client is completely inaccessible to us blind users, I decided—with the help of the Codex AI—to create my own Telegram client that is fully accessible with VoiceOver.
Unfortunately, I have run into several critical bugs that I’m not able to solve on my own. First of all, I need to clearly emphasize that I am not a programmer—I have virtually no programming knowledge at all.
Even so, I tried to create something that will help all of us who are blind and make using Telegram pleasant and convenient.
Sadly, I have to say that at the moment I have not managed to correctly implement the calling system. The app very often cannot properly establish a call after answering, and it crashes when a call is not answered. It also often happens that the app does not ring at all and gives no indication that there is an incoming call.
In addition, there are many issues with telemetry, high resource usage, and performance optimization, and the app drains the battery heavily.
To connect to Telegram, I used the TDLib library.
I kindly ask and appeal to all developers here for help, because neither I nor Codex are able to fix these problems. Anyone who is interested in helping to fix the app and bring it to a usable and stable state—and who has programming experience—is welcome to contact me directly.
The app is written in SwiftUI.
Telegram:
[https://t.me/wmietek8](https://t.me/wmietek8)
Email:
[miet@violinist.pl](mailto:miet@violinist.pl)
At the moment, I have created a private repository on GitHub. Anyone who would like to collaborate and help is asked to contact me so I can add them to the repository.
The official website for my project is:
[https://accessiblegram.net](https://accessiblegram.net)
Best regards, and in advance I will be sincerely and immensely grateful for any help. Let’s create a fully accessible Telegram client together!
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am in the beta testing team
Now, am in the beta testing team, and should say that , really it is a very great app, i did not try the calling yet, but other than that, all are great
is this for iOS?
Is this for iOS? Have some of the other issues been fixed?
exactly
ALl things are working, all the telegram features, can not believe
Looks promising
I have explode this app. It is very accessible. Looked good for the initial impression of usage.
public link.
hello, the app is now released in public test flight! :)
if you want try this beta, you can join by using this link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/cQwVCGxe
I was also working on sth like this
Hi,
totally unaware of this app, I even went as far as buying a Mac Mini just for this. My app was barely authenticating so far. So, instead of reinventing the wheel, I'd rather collaborate on your effort. I am still at my early Swift career, but would be keen on working to improve it.
groups and channels.
I would love for us to be able to create groups and channels with this app.
A few things I've found
1 the app sometimes crashes when making or receiving phone calls.
2 if in a call and you get a message you can't get back to your list of conversations.
This app is off to a nice start. I am part of the beta and have sent in logs. I look forward to seeing this improve.
Yes app slows down in making calls
The app slows down whenever you go to the calls tab.
It would be good if this can be resolved
Improved macOS Support
I installed this on my Mac and while it works, it's clunky and clear it was meant for iOS touch use. Is it possible to add keyboard commands to move between messages, conversations, make calls, etc? The Mac doesn't have a good Telegram client to the best of my knowledge.
wish it will work on mac
No such an accessible telegram on mac till now.
but if we can use this Accessible Gram, it will be great
Accessible Telegram client for macOS — AGram
Hello!
To add to the discussion: there’s a native Telegram client for macOS called AGram, which is designed with accessibility in mind. It’s not the same as the app you’re testing, but it’s built specifically for the Mac platform.
You can find more info here:
official site:
https://app-suite.eu/agram
detailed thread on AppleVis:
https://applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-apps/launching-app-suiteeu-ascan-simplified-ocr-local-ai-agram-native-telegram
Best of luck!