[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Isabel Ruffell]

Hi Samuel,

Oh, I was thinking at a higher user-level (ecosystem == desktop environment, KDE, GNOME or otherwise). 

The main daily aggravation with both the GNOME and KDE platforms are, in no particular order:

1) The menus: layout, complexity and number of useless options (for sight-impaired users)
2) The number of non-compliant programs, which you only ever find out by banging your head against the wall in frustration
3) Incomplete and inconsistent implementation in the better aps
4) Configuration
- GNOME settings are considerably better than KDE, but are still really really difficult to navigate, and the lack of easily edited text files make it nightmarish for the uninitiated (and I am not that uninitiated); as an old-time KDE user, I had an understanding of which text files to edit, but I am out of date, and having that information laid out on install would be fabulous (simple things ...)

Obviously the X/Wayland issue complicates things further. 

I hope that is a bit clearer.

Best,

Isabel




    

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On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 11:03:29AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Isabel Ruffell, le mar. 06 mai 2025 09:34:02 +0100, a ecrit:
> > but is there any way of getting GNOME and KDE to implement an accessibility mode which makes it easier to get at what we need, but exists within the same eco-system?
> 
> What do you call ecosystem? Do you mean X vs wayland? AT-SPI is already
> this. But some parts of accessibility support are inherently tied to the
> X/Wayland ecosystem, such as getting the mouse position and such.
> 
> Samuel
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