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New blog post – Kitten Kawaii: porting a React library and Next.js web site to Kitten
Small Web is the exact opposite of the Big Web. But what does that mean in practice? I wanted to find out by porting Elizabet Oliveira’s lovely React Kawaii app to Kitten. How does Kitten hold up to the frameworks of trillion-dollar and hundred-billion-dollar corporations?
(Spoiler: pretty darn well, actually.)
https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
@aral this sounds awesome, especially the streamming html part. Either way, the screenreader on linux might be broken, but it's not that broken that you can't test a webpage with it. So yeah, saying that you need windows or mac OS to use your computer at all if you want to use fedora and any distros with wayland by default, is false in a lot of cases, though it does depend on circumstances. Just for laughs, I downloaded today the most recent fedora workstation image, booted it, then pressed alt+super+s to start the screenreader. Not only that it started, but it also let me press insert+space to change from espeak-ng-mbrola to normal espeak-ng, because the pitch fluctuations are annoying. All that, yeah, in the installer. Perhaps the installer is gtk3 and that's why I can do that? I have no idea, but it works. I dk about silverblue either, but I suspect that doesn't work because of the things included in such an image, and I don't care about that anyway, because I have no inclination to use immutable, atomic, or however you wanna call them nowadays, distros at this point, because they give far too much control to the distributor and maker of the image than the actual user of the OS, and as an arch user primarily, I find that repugnant.
@esoteric_programmer How do you control the screen reader when the modifier key doesn’t work?
@esoteric_programmer Also, thank you for the kind words. It’s still a work-in-progress but slowly getting there :)
@aral that's the thing, it works for me, orca, or insert, +space opens the settings menu and that just worked. However, for anything which isn't mac OS or that stupid piece of shit chromevocs, or maybe android too, the screenreader modifier is specifically for controlling the screenreader, you can use applications normally, with native OS navigation keys, like tab and arrows. If you need focus mode, you can use orca+a to enable it, though it's probably not relevant in your case, until it is. Also, if you go to general in orca preferences, then switch keyboard layout to laptop, you'll use capslock as orca modifier. The issue with that is, capslock will also get triggered, but as I said before, that doesn't really matter since you can turn capslock off whenever you notice it's on. Also, this is temporary, because of the new a11y stack coming out, which is wayland aware, so should solve those issues