@Linux does that include accessibility features? I mean, is orca or something similar supported on there? if so, how does it work?

@Linux that basically says that some zoom features are a thing, but screenreaders not at all, other focus assist like features aren't mentioned. So yeah, it sounds interesting, but a11y is currently inexistent. But then, orca doesn't work with touchscreens at the moment, but I'm trying to fix that by using evdev and other hackish interfaces, or maybe a wayland specific protocol. However, bottom of the line though, sailfish OS can't yet be used by people with no vision at all. Also, not all qt software is accessible, for example kde has been a mess for a very long time, till they decided a11y is an important goal.

@Linux accessible coconut is nothing more than an outdated ubuntu I think, with most of the software something I don't need or use, its own update script, a policy of not updating it with apt for fear of breakage, and not much in the way of actual accessibility. In short, while I'm sure the maintainer has best interests at heart, in most cases there's no need for specialised distros like accessible coconut. For example, raw debian, ubuntu with the mate flavor or even archlinux with mate desktop and afew customisations is very accessible, and those are all mainline distros. Sure, I will indeed contact the devs, once i figure out a solution to the problem that works well enough to be deployed, then accessibility won't be an issue, or something.

@Linux so, they did update it after all, I thought the distro will join the dead ones, good that didn't happen at least. However, about it being special because it's tailored for the visually impaired, that's their branding, and while there's nothing wrong with that, when it comes to actually useful software for the visually impaired, there isn't much you can't find in normal ubuntu. For example, boot from the live medium of ubuntu mate, press alt+meta+s when you hear the sound that signifies boot completed, you'll instantly hear speech and be ready to install it independently, same with running. Hell, I'm running arch over here, and while the genux distro is an arch derivative with the same goals, what it has doesn't really add to the accessibility experience, aside from probably stuff like ocrdesktop, but that stuff can be installed easily through pacman.

@Linux If a distro wants to call itself not only accessible, but tailored specifically for us and to actually deliver on what it says, it has to add lots more things, not just put afew extra packages here, make afew settings there and call itself that. For examples of what it should do, a good start would include probably configuring or making a wayland compositor to behave better with accessibility applications eg screenreaders, replacing some mate pannels with more accessible counterparts or switching to a wayland desktop for example kde plasma, making electron force the accessible renderer by default, it only requires some changes in a config file, stuff like that. However, my personal opinion is that nowadays, most major distros have accessibility included, at least enough of it that we don't need specific stuff anymore. For example, till afew years ago, archlinux didn't have a speaking mode, now it does and I can install the raw distro, in stead of having to rely on talking arch.