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Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living
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.
But I get the gist of it - the common Wayland protocols do not provide a complete interface to all the things an accessibility tool like Talon Voice needs in order to assist the user in using their computer’s UI. The Wayland protocol lacks (by design) a whole bunch of features needed for Talon and similar accessibility programs to function, things that are fully possible on Linux with X11, OSX and Windows. There are ongoing efforts to compile the issues faced by Talon Voice and contacting the teams behind the big distros and desktop environments, but any change that hopefully might occur from that is still a long way out.
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