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		yjftsjthsd-h 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in... Depends why you need it. XWayland is worthless for a11y.

gf000 3 days ago [–]

Arguably, there is no sane a11y on GNU/Linux anywhere.

iOS/Mac/Android is on completely other level.

yjftsjthsd-h 3 days ago | [–]

It's not a single thing. Trying to get a screen reader on GNU/Linux is awful. Getting dwell click is easy on X11 and... some Wayland implementations. Or if you like: It was bad on X, and is worse on Wayland.

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