“For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support.”
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRs-Without-X11
How cool… does this mean there’s now a fully functional screen reader for Wayland-only GNOME or should we tell people who rely on screen readers to just suck it up?
#GNOME #GNOME47 #Wayland #Orca #accessibility #a11y #linux #OpenSource
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
Last week the GNOME 47 development code saw Wayland DRM lease protocol support for enhancing VR headset handling and separately was also accent color support for GNOME Shellwww.phoronix.com
PhreakByte
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project – GNOME Accessibility
blogs.gnome.orgKevin Karhan :verified:
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •that is a good question.
I'll focus on @OS1337:
Aral Balkan
in reply to Kevin Karhan :verified: • • •Orca
OrcaKevin Karhan :verified:
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •shouldn't #Orca just work as part of the #Wayland-running #Gnome session?
If not, then the Orca devs need to push for Gnome to help make it work...
Aral Balkan
in reply to Kevin Karhan :verified: • • •@kkarhan Yep, it should. But it never has. And Fedora, for example, has been shipping with Wayland by default and without a working screen reader for the past nine years.
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 has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Aral BalkanDaniel S. Reichenbach
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Tobias Frisch
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Have you seen this work here?
https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project/
Not sure whether this gets merged already to be part of the release of GNOME 47. But it seems there have been changes to Orca for that release.
Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project – GNOME Accessibility
blogs.gnome.orgAral Balkan
in reply to Tobias Frisch • • •