IBM Does Not Care for the Blind (Wayland Harms Accessibility)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 25, 2024

"Background: It’s not just Fedora [which is how IBM pushes Wayland everywhere]. Every Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default – and that’s almost every major Linux distribution – ships with a broken/unusable screen reader at the moment." -Aral Balkan

For nearly a decade already (since 2015, thanks to Wayland):

Fedora, a major Linux distribution, has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years.
This can only happen in an ableist culture.

If there is one takeaway you need from this post, it’s this.

Unless you’re interested in the details or the ensuing drama, you can stop reading here and you will not have missed out on much.

Watch the details and the gaslighting ("toots") from "Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!"

What a punch in the gut.

Latest on this, in the DEI room:

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Backup meme: IBM and people with special needs

Last month: Racism, Ageism, and Ableism at IBM/Red Hat and Kyndryl

Last week: During Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 IBM and Its Subsidiaries Dragged to Court Over Discrimination at the Corporate Level

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