Mastodawn

I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev

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Florian 5d ago

The consensus seems to be that yes, this is broken, and no, there's not really any way around it for the moment. Also no, nobody's really fixing it.
i want to, #Linux enthusiasts, I really, really do. But it's exactly this kind of thing that make me entirely unable to consider any Linux flavor as an OS I could be productive in, heck ... that I could get light usage out of. When it comes to #accessibility stuff either breaks and stays broken for years or even longer, or never worked well to begin with. I know there's efforts on their way to fix that, and all the respect, gratitude and solidarity with the people doing that no doubt thankless, against-the-current work, but as of right now there's just not enough here for me to warrant the gigantic effort and investment to get anything usable out of it that actually stays usable longterm.

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Ghostrunner 5d ago

@zersiax what exactly is wrong and where? You are declaring generalities where specifics are required to help correct.

I have 3 hours after work. I can fix one thing today. What one thing do you want fixed?

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🏳️‍⚧️PepperTheVixen🦯5d ago

@ghostrunner @zersiax This is a deficiency in linux desktops as a whole. It would take months of work to fix. It's not just one problem, it's a whole series of problems split across different packages born out of neglect for accessibility

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Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA

@PepperTheVixen @zersiax Even as someone who's sighted and (mostly) without disability, and technical, I was floundering on one distro just to get TTS besides espeak working. Thankfully far easier to solve elsedistro, but yeah, I keep seeing it being a problem and then people treating folks who are expressing broad frustration as "you're not being specific enough".

And I feel like half the problem is the people saying that are driven by problem solving only, and not learning about the entire puzzle to create their own problems within it to solve. Making disabled people do the lifting of clearly defining the technicals of their problems is, to me, a pretty crappy approach when the needs are well published already in numerous places and no one wants to learn them because they're not "technical problems".

Can't solve it yourself? Express empathy by doing what you can to put pressure on others to make it more accessible.

Speaking of, I still need to make that PKGBUILD for AUR so folks can install obs-localvocal to put captions on their stream (embed in video and/or standard subtitle closed captions in stream) more easily. Worked great once I built from source.