It’s elitism as per usual, i daily drive Linux for 9 years already and always point this out, if we want the year of Linux truly come, then elitism must be stopped as majority of people won’t come to Linux if it’s inconvenient to them and majority of people not a techy guys, Linux guys want people to like Linux but don’t want Linux to BECOME likeable to majority and want it to persist as elite subculture, that’s the MAIN paradox of Linux community and all other problems like systemd vs other init, x11 vs Wayland, tiling wm vs full DE, distro wars, all stem from this same reason, Linux users wanna FEEL elite but want mass adoption and mass recognition of Linux while it’s not yet accessible to everyone or even becoming less accessible like in this case we’re discussing

I disagree with this characterization of Linux devs. They’re just people. I’m sure there are some shitheads out there, but I don’t think it’s anymore the case than with any other sample of software devs.

I think the more likely reason that accessibility technology is an afterthought in Linux is because it’s an afterthought in pretty much all software, which is a bad thing, but I haven’t seen them be elitist about accessibility.

Some of the problem really is just that Linux graphical capabilities have been challenging enough enough that doing some of the extra demanding things that various access capabilities require weren’t possible until recently (and some of them still aren’t possible).

Yup, considering they deprecated so many functions and removed them I’d imagine switching would be really hard.

Even while writing my new projects in gtk4 (tiny projects) I run into problems of many solutions no longer working because the functions are removed without any replacements.