Post #3240588
2026-03-23 12:38 UTC
@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.
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@iaruffell@mastodon.scot 2026-03-23 13:01
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @aral@mastodon.ar.al You'd have thought! Actually, Debian used to default to MATE/X11, I think for that reason. Or at least flag it. The problem is being fixed by the Orca folk, who are basically on their own, as far as I cansee. It is not yet, I believe, quite feature-compatible with Orca/X11. Disclaimer: I get this from lurking on the Orca mailing list, but i am sticking with X11 myself for now.
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@fireborn@dragonscave.space 2026-05-14 18:12
@prism@infosec.exchange @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot Wayland is now usable with Orca, the screen reader on Linux, and in some cases, GNOME being the best example, the behaviour is better than under x11