@julian If your reaction to a blind user describing problems they have using open source software is "that sounds hard, go fix it yourself lol," I cannot stress enough how much you need to unfollow me right now. It makes me feel gross knowing there are people on my follower list with that little empathy.
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“Linux ‘just works’—if you can see.@drew Linux has been pretty drama-free for me for a long time. Windows is actually more annoying to use these days. But I’m sighted (for now, anyway).
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“Linux ‘just works’—if you can see.“Linux ‘just works’—if you can see.
If you’re blind?
You boot into a live image and get nothing.
No speech. No braille. No login prompt feedback. Maybe Orca starts, maybe not.
Maybe you know the shortcut (Alt+Super+S?) but does that even work in this session type?
Is it Wayland? Is it X11? Is the screen reader bound to a key combo that doesn’t exist on your keyboard?You open the installer?
‘Next. Button. Button. Button. Button.’ That’s all Orca says.”