Major distros are soon switching to versions of desktop environments that use Wayland instead of X11. This is a bad state of affairs for accessibility.
At this point Wayland is basically “winning” because of sunk cost. Just because X11 is the wrong answer doesn’t make Wayland the right one.
We could stop and say “here’s what we learned was problematic from both X11 and Wayland and how people actually use computers in 2025, how would we solve these problems knowing that?” But then we’d have to start again from square 1, and nobody with the clout to make it happen is pushing for that.
I didnt read the article yet, but people choosing to not support it till it’s perfect is what got us here.
At this point Wayland is basically “winning” because of sunk cost. Just because X11 is the wrong answer doesn’t make Wayland the right one.
We could stop and say “here’s what we learned was problematic from both X11 and Wayland and how people actually use computers in 2025, how would we solve these problems knowing that?” But then we’d have to start again from square 1, and nobody with the clout to make it happen is pushing for that.