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Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.

https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism https://masto.ai/@phoronix/113078851664286833

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Aral Balkan
@streetcoder Any distribution that ships with x11 by default. (Orca is fully functional under x11.) Of course, x11 has its own downsides (security, or lack thereof, being the major one).
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@streetcoder (I haven’t tried Accessible Coconut; please do share your experience of it if you can/if you do.)