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Aral Balkan

So @gnome is removing the x11 session, leaving just the Wayland one.

If this goes out before Orca, the GNOME screen reader, is fixed to work on Wayland, it will mean that people who rely on screen readers will have no way to use one on GNOME. And thus on the major Linux distributions.

So I’m hoping the plan is that this change will not land until GNOME has a working screen reader.

#accessibility #a11y #gnome #linux #openSource #foss #wayland #x11 #orca peoplemaking.games/@ailepet/11

People Making Gamesailepet (@ailepet@peoplemaking.games)@noracodes@tenforward.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @zeorin@indieweb.social For now: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/99
slembcke

@aral Pretty sure they aren’t deleting x11 from the repository, just not installing it by default. It will still be seconds away for anyone that wants or needs it.

Mar 12, 2024, 06:18 AM·Public·Ivory for iOS
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Aral Balkan

@slembcke Shipping a broken screen reader by default is already unacceptable. Making it even more difficult than it already is for disabled people who rely on screen readers to use the major Linux distributions is unconscionable. Thankfully, it looks like that won’t be happening but the status quo is nothing to be proud of. It represents a systemic/cultural failure in FOSS whereby lack of accessibility is not seen as a showstopper. That must change.

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