[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 14/05/2025 à 15:48, Sébastien Hinderer a écrit :
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>> Essentially, all of the major desktop environments are making the switch or
>> have already done so. X11 has an end date. I don't think it's worth
>> reporting bugs in that environment anymore. I would rather test and report
>> bugs against Wayland, and the only way to do that is to use it
>> regularly.
> 
> I investigated and AIUI Mate has not yet been ported to Wayland, which
> would mean also changing desktop from Mate to GNOME.

MATE is starting to get ported to Wayland, but it's still early and 
rough.  But I guess testing would be most welcome :)

However, the DBus API Orca uses for keybindings under Wayland is not 
implemented in MATE yet, so that might be tough -- I didn't test that yet.

> I always thought Mate ismore accessible than GNOME. Am I wrong about
> this or is it something that was true in the past but has changed since?

It definitely was.  Nowadays, GNOME did a great job at improving things, 
and it's probably worth reconsidering GNOME 48+ if you're happy to 
change some habits.  Also, under Wayland GNOME is probably the best 
accessible option, as again the newer APIs Orca depend on were designed 
and implemented on GNOME and MATE didn't catch up on that yet.

>> I also find that it works quite well with Orca now, so there isn't really a
>> strong reason to switch back to X.
> 
> Except if Mate is more accessible, as I said above.
> 
> Seb.
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