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Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS but the real problem is me

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#fedora #accessibility #a11y #ableism #RedHat #IBM #Linux #OpenSource

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@petit_suisse @steven We don't have a formal partnership or anything, but we are certainly happy to work together for user's benefit - just recently I was speaking with a Libre Office developer around functionality they were hoping to implement such that it would work with both NVDA on Windows and Orca on Linux - things like that benefit eveyrone.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Thanks for the post. In all the brouhaha, I didn't know a fix was planned for F41.

What I learned from your advocacy is that GNOME is responsible for Orca.

It's there a way that interested people can donate to and help Orca development?

in reply to Aral Balkan

@Tamasg Wish you all the best and I hope you can get back on your feet after so many attacks for just stating the obvious. As a blind individual myself who trys Linux over and over again just to cave and use something where I can actually get work done I respect you a ton to raise awareness of the technical problems as well as the ableist ones. Thank you and be save
in reply to WestphalDenn

@WestphalDenn @Tamasg Sending you lots of love and here’s hoping some folks do some reflecting and things really do change at a systemic/cultural level.

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in reply to Aral Balkan

when you are harassing the people working on fixing it instead of directing your 40k followers toward funding those people then yes, you are the problem
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in reply to DocRekd

for everyone actually interested into improving #a11y on linux please donate (or at least follow) fosstodon.org/@accesskit
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in reply to Aral Balkan

It has long seemed to me that it would be prudent for corporations which derive their revenue from Linux to pool resources and invest in an accessibility effort. For example, they could support the current work of the GNOME Foundation, while educating their own software developers in accessibility and setting appropriate internal policies (e.g., proper testing, accessibility as a release requirement). This has never happened, however, suggesting to me that they'd all rather wait until the law compels them to change course. Meanwhile, very under-resourced, and dedicated, accessibility work continues. The regulatory environment is also changing for the better, e.g., the European Accessibility Act addresses "consumer" computers and operating systems, and it comes into effect next year.