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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 20:07:41 JST Aral Balkan

   Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.

   https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

   #Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism https://masto.ai/@phoronix/113078851664286833

   • streetcoder (streetcoder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 21:52:25 JST streetcoder

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     @aral Ok, or better to say not Ok at all, but what system should we try for getting a usable a11y experience?

     Before patching we have to find a welcoming distro first. I'm looking for one with a usable screen reader.

     Pop OS? I looked into the KDE mailing list and they have nothing yet but recommended looking into "Accessible Coconut" distro, which is based on Mate Desktop with I think Orca.

     Have you tried it? What are you using or any idea what to try first?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 21:52:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • streetcoder

     @streetcoder Any distribution that ships with x11 by default. (Orca is fully functional under x11.) Of course, x11 has its own downsides (security, or lack thereof, being the major one).

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 21:53:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     • streetcoder

     @streetcoder (I haven’t tried Accessible Coconut; please do share your experience of it if you can/if you do.)