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For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!
EIGHT YEARS!
(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released in 2016.)
And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.
What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.
#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux https://fosstodon.org/@soller/112646375569571307
@aral what is the impact of this?
@Chiquidrakula It means any Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default (any distribution that ships the default configuration of the two major display environments – GNOME and KDE – which ship with Wayland as default by default) like Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc., are inaccessible to disabled people who need a screen reader in order to use a computer.
Are you sure though? I am on Fedora 40 KDE, so with Wayland, and I accidentally started Orca last week and it started reading me buttons and stuff with a terrible voice.
@eclipseo @Chiquidrakula A screen reader isn’t a passive app that just reads what’s on the screen. It is controlled by a person who tells it what to read and uses it to navigate through an operating system, apps, and documents interactively. What makes Orca broken on any Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default is that you cannot control the screen reader because the global key you use to activate it doesn’t work. (And it’s not a trivial fix; it requires major work to fix properly.)
@aral @Chiquidrakula Thanks for explaining. I agree it won't be the Year Of Desktop Linux if we don't have functional accessibility features.