• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    This is exactly the problem I meant. Thank you for such a detailed overview of the issue. Most apps won’t provide for it, and as you described why technically, it will mean the end of accessibility as a system whole.

    • Skull giver
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      41 year ago

      I doubt it’ll be the end of accessibility. There’s a very active issue on Github about an accessibility portal to fix Wayland’s shortcomings for accessibility. I expect the problem to be that very few people work on accessibility tooling, so even if the standard is finished tomorrow, it can take years for tooling to catch up.

      I expect the Gnome/KDE tools to work on Gnome and KDE first, and then generic tools to work later. Or maybe the tooling Google has built into ChromeOS will be ported over, as Chromebooks are running on Wayland as well, who knows!

      Luckily, X11 is going nowhere for the coming years. There are still people running system-v on bleeding edge Arch installs. Linux has a very long half time when it comes to software support. If you install Ubuntu 24.04 with X11 today, you’ll be able to keep using the current accessibility toolset until 2034 at least.