Isabel Ruffell1d ago

OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism

Show threadAral Balkan1d ago
@iaruffell Good question :) https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me

Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.

Aral Balkan
Show threadIsabel Ruffell1d ago

@aral

Indeed. At least X11/orca worked for those distros that cared. It is telling that Wayland development and adoption was without any apparent care for accessibility.

But even where there is a screenreader (and the orca folk are heroes), the vast bulk of apps are, at best, patchy. There are some honourable exceptions. Libreoffice and thunderbird are usable, but Gnome appears to be going backwards, and (it pains me to say) KDE is a disaster.

Show threadDevin Prater :blind:
@iaruffell @aral Yep. Thankfully Mate uses X11, for now.
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