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Fedora: “The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!
Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users.”
Me: Fedora, your screen reader is broken.
Fedora guy: Patches welcome 
Me: *reaches for block button*
From the actually-what-you’re-referring-to-as-ableism-is-GNU/ableism department
Background: It’s not just Fedora. Every Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default – and that’s almost every major Linux distribution – ships with a broken/unusable screen reader at the moment.
(Read that again until it really sinks in. Yep. I know. Uh-huh. Really.)
@aral when you say patches welcome. Is there a protocol for this for Wayland?
I just tried Orca on GNOME Wayland. It was pretty terrible. The Orca documentation kept saying to use the Orca modifier key but did not say what the default was in the getting started page.
@sageofredondo They’re working on fixing it for the next release. But it’s been in the major Linux distributions for quite a while now. (Basically, the modifier key/ keyboard control doesn’t work. So the screen reader doesn’t work.)