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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:06:52 JST Aral Balkan

   “We ignored accessibility for eight years and still ship with a broken screen reader but you’re the asshole for calling us out on it.“

   – Sincerely, the folks at Fedora and GNOME

   I’m actually at the point where I’m wondering why I’m on this platform and whether I’m actually doing more harm than good by showcasing it in my videos and talks and screenshots, etc., given this toxic culture.

   But does a better free alternative even exist? *sigh*

   #ableism #fedora #GNOME #wayland #a11y #accessibility

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:29:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ladyerrant

     @ladyerrant I have a block button and I make copious use of it :)

   • ladyerrant (ladyerrant@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:29:36 JST ladyerrant

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     @aral what I dont get is how you put up with the bullshit in your replies.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:32:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • sumokirby ✅

     @sumokirby I was summarising. They also didn’t say “we ignored accessibility for eight years”

   • sumokirby ✅ (sumokirby@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:32:20 JST sumokirby ✅

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     @aral Who called you an asshole?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:42:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • sumokirby ✅

     @sumokirby https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112647473375947331

   • sumokirby ✅ (sumokirby@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:42:11 JST sumokirby ✅

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     @aral I find it's better to assume good intentions, especially when it comes to open source.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:45:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Colin Haynes

     @ColinHaynes Ah yes, I got pinged about this before – listening now, thanks for the reminder :)

   • Colin Haynes (colinhaynes@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:45:17 JST Colin Haynes

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     @aral the most recent Linux After Dark podcast (ep. 72) was very interesting on this subject. Worth a listen.

   • Ian Smith (katachora@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:13:34 JST Ian Smith

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     @aral 1. It's commendable how you're not suffering assholes. 2. Forgive me if this is already recorded as part of the saga, but a question: is the screen reader broken, or is this (yet another) case of Weyland being an insufficiently functional replacement for X, or are the program and the display server collaborating to be broken?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:13:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ian Smith

     @katachora Basically, due to the way Wayland works, the global modifier key required to control Orca doesn’t work. So you cannot control the screen reader in Orca.

     The folks at Fedora have been shipping Fedora with Wayland by default for eight years with a broken screen reader.