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
@aral @iaruffell thank you for bringing this up! I was completely unaware of it.
If Wayland is unable to support screen readers while X11 is, then surely that's a reason why all distributions should be defaulting to X11? I've honestly never understood what the benefits of Wayland were supposed to be, but disability inclusion ought to be a really big deal — even if we were not obliged to do so by law, making our systems usable by minorities who are otherwise excluded is just good manners.
You'd have thought! Actually, Debian used to default to MATE/X11, I think for that reason. Or at least flag it.
The problem is being fixed by the Orca folk, who are basically on their own, as far as I cansee. It is not yet, I believe, quite feature-compatible with Orca/X11.
Disclaimer: I get this from lurking on the Orca mailing list, but i am sticking with X11 myself for now.
Isabel Ruffell
Aral Balkan
Simon Brooke