Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice
10 months ago
- #Accessibility
- #Linux
- #Wayland
- Ubuntu and GNOME are moving away from X11, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 already removing Xorg.
- Wayland offers improvements like better modifier key handling, cleaner focus behavior, and enhanced security.
- Accessibility tools like Orca are now more stable and responsive on Wayland compared to X11.
- X11 workflows, especially headless GUI and scripting tools, are broken or unavailable on Wayland.
- MATE, a preferred desktop for blind users, does not yet support Wayland.
- Compositor compatibility issues persist, particularly with wlroots-based compositors and D-Bus keybinding interfaces.
- GNOME leads in Wayland accessibility, with KDE and COSMIC making progress but still lagging.
- The transition to Wayland presents an opportunity to rebuild accessibility tools with modern standards.
- Developers are actively working on improving Wayland's accessibility, offering hope for future improvements.