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As I'm making my own debloat script for Windows, removing a few registry things and such, I went looking in my bookmarks and found this. It still holds up

First, a quote. The fact that this has to be turned on by anyone shows just how ableist much of open source culture is. No other operating system needs this. When you turn on VoiceOver on a Mac, you can access every accessible program. When you turn on Narrator or NvDA on Windows, you can access every accessible program. When you turn on ChromeVox on a ChromeBook, you can access every accessible program. It’s only on Linux, where you have to check a box to enable accessibility.

https://scribe.rip/@r.d.t.prater/linux-accessibility-an-unmaintained-mess-8fbf9decaf8a #Linux

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in reply to Robert Kingett, blind

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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The AT-SPI protocol actually provides a way for ATs like Orca to automatically tell applications when accessibility needs to be enabled, as long as the desktop environment is correctly configured. I don't know if there are applications or toolkits that still don't support this mechanism. I know it's there because we just implemented it in #AccessKit.
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in reply to Matt Campbell

Peter Vágner
Peter Vágner
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@Matt Campbell @Robert Kingett Well those are the settings such as org.mate.interface accessibility or org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility . These are supposed to launch at-spi along with the desktop environment such as when logging into gnome. However if at-spi is installed orca launches it too. If it's running already it does not mess with unless a --replace command line parameter is specified. At least this is my understanding.
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