Post #3240585
2026-03-22 14:17 UTC
@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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@pixelate@tweesecake.social 2026-03-23 12:21
@iaruffell@mastodon.scot @aral@mastodon.ar.al Yep. Thankfully Mate uses X11, for now.
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@proficiency@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 13:29
@iaruffell@mastodon.scot @aral@mastodon.ar.al There are people who cares so much about accessibility in GNOME, but there are few of them, KDE folk largely doesn't care about accessibility because they're chasing typical PC user, which explain why it is a disaster and barely talk about when it comes to accessibility (I'm betting half of their user base also likely triggered when hearing the word "accessibility").