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Comment by charcircuit

2 days ago

xwayland still exists for backwards compatibility.

xwayland exists for application compatibility, but is essentially worthless for a11y tools

  • Accessibility wasn't strongly broken so I didn't think that commentor was talking about that.

    • The article we're talking under is titled "Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living" and talks about how Wayland breaks a11y tools. The root comment says breaking backward compat is bad. What would they be possible be talking about except for Wayland breaking existing X11-based a11y tools?