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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:06:01 JST Aral Balkan

I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?
#accessibility #foss #linux

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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:08:05 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Sovereign Tech Fund
  Why should it take @sovtechfund to fund accessibility work on the Linux distribution of a multi-billion-dollar corporation like IBM. Why the fuck isn’t IBM paying for it?
  #accessibility #linux #foss #corporations #BigTech
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:15:56 JST Aral Balkan
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  @lebout2canap Oh ffs!
  
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- lebout2canap ⏚ (lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:15:59 JST lebout2canap ⏚
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  @aral
  > And then: oh, and this charity is
  > paying for one person to work
  >on accessibility support to be
  >implemented now
  Assuming it doesn’t fall through…
  “We’re currently facing a major issue from the GNOME Foundation side. We hope it will be resolved before it impacts the coordination of the STF project, but if not, the future of parts of the project is uncertain.” https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-149/
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  1. #149 Installer Installment · This Week in GNOME
- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:31:04 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Miroslav Kravec
  @kravemir @sovtechfund Wow.
  
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- Miroslav Kravec (kravemir@hometech.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 23:31:05 JST Miroslav Kravec
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  @aral @sovtechfund because corporations don't deliver Linux as a desktop OS as a product / don't provide it to consumers.
  Corporations use Linux mostly for servers, or for their internal tools loaded with specific software to do a specific task.
  Often, the tasks, for which they use Linux loaded gadgets, require people to not be visually impaired due to nature of work itself and tools just enhance it, and therefore accessibility is irrelevant in their context of use.
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 15:17:31 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Daimar Stein :molotov:
  @joojmachine You can’t control it. Keyboard control is broken.
  
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- Daimar Stein :molotov: (joojmachine@ursal.zone)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 15:17:33 JST Daimar Stein :molotov:
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  @aral I sympathize but don't understand what's the issue you're facing. Just tried using GNOME's screen reader on Fedora (on Wayland) and it's working pretty much perfectly, with the only exception being Firefox, which doesn't seem to have anything to do with Red Hat, weirdly enough.
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 15:18:15 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Daimar Stein :molotov:
  @joojmachine (I appreciate your looking into it.)
  
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- Adrian Roselli (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 16:05:05 JST Adrian Roselli
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  @aral No idea if you saw this passibly-related thread about piping output to NVDA in a WINE setup: https://dragonscave.space/@meatbag/112528902037585952
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    Attached: 1 audio Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype! #linux #accessibility #blind
- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 16:05:05 JST Aral Balkan
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  @aardrian Hadn’t; thanks.
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 19:57:30 JST Aral Balkan
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  @joojmachine I mean you can’t control the screen reader. In other words, the major Linux distributions do not have a functional screen reader at the moment and haven’t had one since they started shipping Wayland by default.
  
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- Daimar Stein :molotov: (joojmachine@ursal.zone)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 19:57:31 JST Daimar Stein :molotov:
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  @aral Do you mean keyboard control as in managing to navigate the UI with a keyboard or do you mean controlling the TTS through it? At least with the GTK apps I tested the keyboard navigation worked really well, but since it's something I don't NEED I'm not aware of what exactly is broken with it, but I'll be glad to at least look into what can be done about it :frogCozy:
  
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