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An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog
I recently saw somebody ask Is Fedora accessible now ? To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it.
Thankfully, Lukáš Tyrychtr and Carlos Garnacho cooperated on extracting the relevant parts and completed the shortcuts support. Georges Basile Stavracas Neto put a lot of effort into making webkitgtk accessible, in particular when it is used in a flatpak sandbox. A number of missing accessible labels, tooltips and key bindings have been added in the file chooser List boxes now provide information to make orca say the right thing The a11y overlay in the GTK inspector will now show you when your buttons are too small as click targets ATs can receive notification about platform state (such as focus) changes, and custom accessible implementations can emit such notifications We now provide information about shortcuts and mnemonics for actions in the form that orca expects Reporting of text attributes has been improved (a contribution from the LibreOffice team) libadwaita toast notifications are now announced to AT The accessible representation of many libadwaita action row widgets has been improved
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