“Linux ‘just works’ – if you can see.
…
This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.”
(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/ There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” https://web.archive.org/web/20250418090901/https://ind.ie/ethical-design/ This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology)
@aral @fireborn this is puzzling to me, I'm on fedora and have had some specific browser screenreader things to test at the end of last year and it just worked. At least from the pov of a sighted.
I know there are big efforts to modernize the whole accessability stack, driven by the gnome team and the stf. You are probably right and we should be mad it's not IBM spending their money on it.
