Hello Thomas,
To be fully clear: There is no risk to see something changes on your
experience until approximately 4 years. The issue we've found are in
GTK4 and we'll work with GTK4 developers to ensure the Linux
accessibility will continue to be as good as today.
Best regards,
Alex.
Le 08/11/2019 à 01:21, thom...@fastmail.cn a écrit :
Hi,
I have followed the discussion on the orca list lately and the conflicts around
GTK 4 accessibility. I guess without getting into the drama of it all, I would
just like to ask those who are knowledgeable if they think we will have Linux
accessibility going into the future. I guess the issue seems to be that patches
are being created for what upstream thinks is a broken system in some ways and
it sounds like things like keyboard snooping could cause problems in the
future. I honestly don't know enough to understand whether its broken from a
design standpoint, however, it at least lets me use the computer.
I am not a skilled enough developer to understand all this yet but I rely on
accessibility software for my job. I guess I would just like as honest as an
answer as possible. If people think accessibility is going to be removed or key
parts of the needed infrastructure, I see no other option than to buy a Mac now
so that I can continue to operate the computer in the future. I did notice some
comments that proposed removing ATK entirely which obviously would leave me
dead in the water.. Ultimately, if the end is approaching, I would like to
purchase a Mac as soon as possible since I will have to relearn the computer
and a new screen reader (VoiceOver and would like as smooth a transition as
possible.
I love using free software and hope to continue doing so, however, I ultimately
have to do what is necessary to keep my job so I can support myself.
Thanks for any information and i hope those here can understand my concerns and
honestly just not knowing what to do based on not having the technical
knowledge to understand entirely what is happening in the different upstream
packages.
