This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?
This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.
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For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…
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Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME Foundation
Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...YouTube
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