For the past week, I've been so angry and disappointed in the Linux community for being quiet in regards to any kind of celebration to advancing accessibility, but suddenly becoming vocal and supportive when privileged people start writing about how bad accessibility on Linux is while portraying contributors as the devils who don't care about anybody.

I'm so exhausted. I'm so demotivated. The Linux community really doesn't care about accessibility on Linux. No wonder accessibility on Linux sucks. No one wants to work on it because they keep getting bullied and pressured.

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

#a11y #Accessibility #Linux #FOSS #GNOME #KDE

It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux

What do concern trolls and privileged people without visible or invisible disabilities who share or make content about accessibility on Linux being trash without contributing anything to projects have in common? They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place. I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations. This is far from the first time, and it will certainly not be the last.

TheEvilSkeleton
@TheEvilSkeleton i think theres a lot of concern trolling from the "X11 is still the best" folk that actually dont give a shit
@TheEvilSkeleton @aks all those people defending X11 for accessibility reasons surely cared very much about accessibility before, right? ... right?

@aks Every time I hear someone use screen readers as an argument for why X11 is better, I just have to silently laugh because I know they're wrong.

Screen readers *have poblems* on Wayland, but there are a lot more problems I actively debug that are completely irrelevant to X11 or Wayland.

No, Wayland isn't why things are mislabelled.

@bexelbie @acidiclight @aks Seems to me a lot of people don't understand what I write. 😓