Major distros are soon switching to versions of desktop environments that use Wayland instead of X11. This is a bad state of affairs for accessibility.
I have the deepest sympathy for people with disabilities and I can’t begin to imagine what life’s like for folks who ain’t got what I take for granted.
having said that, the reality is there is no lusciously funded corporation or collective doing development with paid focus groups and well paid Q&A teams working hard and dilligent with extensive (and expensive) testing so that all "i"s are dotted, "t"s are crossed, etc. etc. the meager funds, if there are any, are better spent on infra and dev efforts.
therefore, changes have to be forced on users in order to test and fix em in vivo and advance the platform and it’s def a “build a plane while flying it” type of deal. there’s immense pushback for every new tech forced on users - systemd, pipewire, wayland, etc. - ignoring the reality of the landscape. yes, full feature parity is absent, but it will never be achieved without this premise.
a way around it is to not be on a bleeding-edge distro, like Fedora and friends; what the author dreads (“waylands is coming!”) I’m running since Fedora 35 (we’re on 42 atm).
nobody is forcing you off bookworm and xfce and whatever, and you can rock that for the next decade if you choose so, without any significant issues.
therefore, changes have to be forced on users in order to test and fix em in vivo and advance the platform and it’s def a “build a plane while flying it” type of deal. there’s immense pushback for every new tech forced on users - systemd, pipewire, wayland, etc. - ignoring the reality of the landscape.
Bullshit. You can simply look at the reality around you and know about some of the important things to expect, without (or at least, before) needing to treat your (production) userbase as actually a bit below than interns / unpaid workforce. There was no way the devs would not have known eg.: clipboard would have been an issue as this would have been become apparent as soon as anyone went “but what if I want to use my password manager with this?”.
I have the deepest sympathy for people with disabilities and I can’t begin to imagine what life’s like for folks who ain’t got what I take for granted.
having said that, the reality is there is no lusciously funded corporation or collective doing development with paid focus groups and well paid Q&A teams working hard and dilligent with extensive (and expensive) testing so that all "i"s are dotted, "t"s are crossed, etc. etc. the meager funds, if there are any, are better spent on infra and dev efforts.
therefore, changes have to be forced on users in order to test and fix em in vivo and advance the platform and it’s def a “build a plane while flying it” type of deal. there’s immense pushback for every new tech forced on users - systemd, pipewire, wayland, etc. - ignoring the reality of the landscape. yes, full feature parity is absent, but it will never be achieved without this premise.
a way around it is to not be on a bleeding-edge distro, like Fedora and friends; what the author dreads (“waylands is coming!”) I’m running since Fedora 35 (we’re on 42 atm).
nobody is forcing you off bookworm and xfce and whatever, and you can rock that for the next decade if you choose so, without any significant issues.
Bullshit. You can simply look at the reality around you and know about some of the important things to expect, without (or at least, before) needing to treat your (production) userbase as actually a bit below than interns / unpaid workforce. There was no way the devs would not have known eg.: clipboard would have been an issue as this would have been become apparent as soon as anyone went “but what if I want to use my password manager with this?”.