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1. betalars :antifa: (betalars@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 03:48:52 JST betalars :antifa:

   TIL: #Wayland breaks most screen readers, as they are not not intended by design. (they need to interact with other apps)

   Wayland is now the default in pretty much all gnome distros.

   Orca has workarounds, but they are not merged and not fully working. (And a blind user can't built it without a working screen reader)

   I'm not entirely sure if I got this correct, but it seems to me like the #Linux community once again booted the #blind.
   https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland
   https://wayland-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/in2sPBfc/making-wayland-accessible

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • betalars :antifa: (betalars@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 03:49:31 JST betalars :antifa:

     in reply to

     Hot Take: #openSource without #accessibility is not free software and does not respect fundamental human freedoms.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 03:50:14 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @betalars Yep, you got it right. Ran into this the other day and also thought I was missing something. Sadly, I was not.