Post #3240584
2026-03-22 11:17 UTC
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@iaruffell@mastodon.scot 2026-03-22 14:17
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Indeed. At least X11/orca worked for those distros that cared. It is telling that Wayland development and adoption was without any apparent care for accessibility. But even where there is a screenreader (and the orca folk are heroes), the vast bulk of apps are, at best, patchy. There are some honourable exceptions. Libreoffice and thunderbird are usable, but Gnome appears to be going backwards, and (it pains me to say) KDE is a disaster.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-03-23 12:38
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @iaruffell@mastodon.scot thank you for bringing this up! I was completely unaware of it. If Wayland is unable to support screen readers while X11 is, then surely that's a reason why all distributions should be defaulting to X11? I've honestly never understood what the benefits of Wayland were supposed to be, but disability inclusion ought to be a really big deal — even if we were not obliged to do so by law, making our systems usable by minorities who are otherwise excluded is just good manners.