Notices by Sophie (labellaragassa@exquisite.social)

Wow.

An excellent post from a blind screen reader user, on how bad accessibility is on Linux (edit: the poster is on Mastodon as well: @fireborn)
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/

It is a fucking shame. And it is pure neglect, as pointed out in the blog post.

Hot take: a new version of open source software should not release before accessibility is fixed. It should be treated as a show stopper, because it actually is for people with a disability.

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#accessibility #a11y #OpenSource #Linux

@fschaap Next year the European Accessiiblity Act comes into play, and it also applies to operating systems: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/accessibility-of-products-and-services.html.

It is not exactly clear how open source operating systems fall under this, but without more clarification I would say they fall under this act.

The state of Unix/Linux accessibility is even worse then I feared 🙈 . Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS?

Orca doesn't work on any distribution that ships with Wayland by default? 😭 (thanks @aral for bringing it my attention)

Do all the distributions and such know that next year they should be accessible?

I can't code and I am not familiar with testing desktop apps, but I would really like to know how I can help to fix this.

(allthough it shows a bigger problem in open source and it's culture)

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

#accessibility #opensource #orca #gnome #wayland #screenreader