Post by @freya@chaosfem.tw

2026-02-11 01:53 UTC

@malachai@furry.engineer it has many accessibility features, yes, unfortunately the screenreader (which is what I need) is a glitchy unstable mess, and modern UI frameworks make this worse, as does Wayland and Pipewire and suchlike. there's no large amount of funding going into Linux desktop accessibility, and it's such a moving target at this point that getting stable accessibility is really hard

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@malachai@furry.engineer 2026-02-11 01:55

@freya@chaosfem.tw that's fair! If you can get it working in a VM or something and post bug reports, it will do so so so much to help! I hope it gets better for you so you can get away from the hell company. :drgn_heart:

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@drchaos@sauropods.win 2026-02-11 03:54

@malachai@furry.engineer @freya@chaosfem.tw That sucks! And this should be shouted at all of the eejits who are pushing for the oh-so-shiny new stuff just because it's new, and it almost works for me, why don't you like it, and the old stuff is old. Yes, it is old but it works, also for people who need special things, like screen readers and what not. At least in an IT forum I loosely follow some of the residents brought that up, regarding wayland. (and pipwire is a hot mess at least when I tried)

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