[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Jason J.G. White]

On 14/5/25 09:48, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> I just wanted to follow-up on the message below:
>
> I investigated and AIUI Mate has not yet been ported to Wayland, which
> would mean also changing desktop from Mate to GNOME.
>
> 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?

I haven't used Mate recently, so I can't comment. GNOME is now more 
accessible with Orca than it used to be. I would describe it as a 
gradual improvement with bug fixes.

Based on podcast interviews that I've heard, the principal developer of 
Mate appears to have moved on to other projects. I don't know how much 
maintenance or further development it will receive. If I remember 
correctly, he regards it as an essentially finished project, suggesting 
no further major changes are expected. This is best I can remember from 
podcasts I heard at least a year or two ago.

The Cosmic desktop environment is also worth monitoring. Although it is 
still only available in an alpha release, support for Orca has already 
been worked on.

I'm currently running GNOME 48, but of course I am using applications 
most of the time and I don't interact frequently with, for example, 
menus in the desktop environment itself.