Post by @crowk@critter.cafe

linux is so good, i had to use windows for a bit and wow linux is so good, why aren't people using linux? it's so good, don't they know windows is bad?

yk i'm really tired of having this shit boosted onto my tl and if you're doing it you're getting muted. for the last time:
i want to use Linux. i cannot use Linux the way i can use Windows, because the accessibility is a mess. because i don't get the functionality from Linux that i get from Windows, i use Windows. whenever i bring this up, i'm told "that sucks, good thing it's open source, you should fix it".

i am so sick of having the same conversation over and over again and i'm running out of patience for this crap. please try to actually care about disabled people. if you can't help materially, you can help by remembering we're still in the room when you go to make the same godsdamn noise for the trillionth time.
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Jacob Alexander Tice

@daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net 6 days ago

@crowk@critter.cafe

I think one of the worst parts is that while accessibility on Linux wasn't ever particularly great, it has actively gotten worse over the past decade or so and there's actually a pretty good case that one thing has caused that, that being the switch to Wayland. Wayland as a protocol has certain assumptions on how display servers should work and one of them is that programs shouldn't be aware of other programs. This obviously runs headfirst into the brick wall that is literally every piece of assistive software ever created but because Wayland protocol developers seem to be zealots that doesn't matter at best and at worst… you have a developer from the GNOME project posting about the project Talon Voice while being too much of a coward to actually name it, saying that accessibility advocates come with "maximalist" demands as if there's a reasonable limit to how much accessibility software can do. And then people wonder why said developers don't want anything to do with upstream gee can't imagine why they must be unreasonable and willing to help. Nearly every experience I have ever heard from anyone who has tried to contribute to Wayland's protocols has been profoundly negative.

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