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My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.
Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.
Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.
You should know:
Everything known to a screen reader about what's on your screen is given to it by the applications you are running, not your Wayland compositor.
@patric @TheEvilSkeleton saw this one and had to think of you given your recent blogpost.
It's one of those rare signs where people actually acknowledge and appreciate what is being done, so in case you hadn't seen it yet I thought it might be nice.
Another great post in the I Want to Love Linux series, this time about Wayland #accessibility:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#a11 #linux #gnome
@TheEvilSkeleton entirely agreed, this widely tracks with everything I see in a few Linux communities and the entitled ignorance is rage inducing
@lispi314 @a1ba there was one last month which goes into detail: https://feaneron.com/2025/05/15/in-celebration-of-accessibility/
Linux's #accessibility #dilemma is like a #trendy #party where nobody invited the ramp builders. 🎉 #Wheelchairs need not apply when gatekeepers are busy virtue-signaling at the door! 🚫🔧
https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/ #Linux #Virtue #Signaling #HackerNews #ngated
It's True, "We" Don't Care About Accessibility on Linux
https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/
#HackerNews #Accessibility #Linux #Awareness #Discrimination #OpenSource
It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux
https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/
Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
For the past week, I've been so angry and disappointed in the Linux community for being quiet in regards to any kind of celebration to advancing accessibility, but suddenly becoming vocal and supportive when privileged people start writing about how bad accessibility on Linux is while portraying contributors as the devils who don't care about anybody.
I'm so exhausted. I'm so demotivated. The Linux community really doesn't care about accessibility on Linux. No wonder accessibility on Linux sucks. No one wants to work on it because they keep getting bullied and pressured.
https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/
🍜 "State of libsoup"
with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.
My @igalia colleague Luís Henriques has just published a very interesting post about the work he has been doing lately in the Linux #kernel about #FUSE over #io_uring.
https://luis.camandro.org/2025-06-14-fuse-over-io_uring.html
And here is the audio podcast: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/x11-fork-denmark-moves-to-linux-android-gets-more-locked-down
As always, you can follow it from Mastodon @tlenewspodcast, or subscribe to it from your favorite podcast client
🎓 "Making a career out of FOSS Internships (GSoC/Outreachy)"
with Aryan Kaushik at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
💼 FOSS can lead to real careers. Aryan explains how GSoC & Outreachy changed lives—and why you should get involved too.
@heartshadows@vivaldi.net @Lohynochka @gnome sure, but they do not plan on hosting a Massive project that is going to have substantial cost in bandwidth used and CPU cores occupied through runners etc.
It's not like a massive vendor lock in either, gnome transitioned infra rather quickly before and if they want to move off AWS they can quickly do so again.
