The state of Unix/Linux accessibility is even worse then I feared 🙈 . Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS?
Orca doesn't work on any distribution that ships with Wayland by default? 😠(thanks @aral for bringing it my attention)
Do all the distributions and such know that next year they should be accessible?
I can't code and I am not familiar with testing desktop apps, but I would really like to know how I can help to fix this.
(allthough it shows a bigger problem in open source and it's culture)
Read more: ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
Luckily the Newton Project should fix this blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…, but still: it shows accessiiblity is often an afterthought.
#accessibility #opensource #orca #gnome #wayland #screenreader
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.Aral Balkan
Sophie
in reply to Sophie • • •I am really dissappointed.
if you work in software or on a operating system: if you don't care or don't do anything on accessiiblity, you are ableist. Do better, open source.
Frank
Unknown parent • • •@fireborn I agree it is disappointing, but the problem space is so big and complex, I find it hard to fault individuals spending their free time in focussing/contributing to things they can actually control and/or achieve.
If anything, focus scorn not on 'the community', but on companies' c-suite who make money off of FOSS and not caring enough to specifically invest back in inclusivity and thus enabling/empowering those developers who do care.