Hi Jordan, Answers to some of your statements after the quotes.
On 30/12/2021 08:13, Jordan Livesey wrote: > chromium is only accessible on distros based on debian based > on a dependency that only debian has and that ubuntu also uses, fedora users > are out of luck here, so are arch and opensuse users I wonder which dependency you are speaking about. Initially as Joanmarie Diggs wrote in: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Chromium you needed to launch Chrome or Chromium with these options --enable-caret-browsing --force-renderer-accessibility but this is not necessary any more in recent versions of Chrome and Chromium. You only need insure that ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 is in your environment. This is true regardless of the distribution in use. On 30/12/2021 08:58, Jordan Livesey wrote: > slint is not based on a newer version of slackware True, Slint is based on Slackware64-14.2 released in 2016. However it includes the most recent versions of Orca, speech dispatcher and console screen readers as Mate desktop, mpv and vlc, for instance. This being said, yes I would like to re-base it on a more recent Slackware version, hopefully in a not too distant future. There is some hope: Patrick Volkerding posted that Slackware 15 could be released circa 17 January 2022. > also, it doesn't support secure boot True, and I agree that we should overcome this limitation. Recent work has been done by a Slackware contributor on this regard, and I will try to provide this support in Slint 15. > I highly discourage > anyone from using slackware or anything based on it especially for new users You are free to give the advice you deem appropriate. I am just guessing that this one is not based on a recent personal experience. > also, linux distros that focus on accessibility tend to go out of support > pretty > quickly Indeed I can't guarantee that I will be able to provide support in the next 30 years (hint: I am 72), but hope someone will take over Slint maintenance and support. And I am not the only one to provide support in our mailing list. This being said, it is neither uncommon let alone unfeasible to switch to another distribution for any reason. I started with Mandrake. Cheers, Didier
