An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog

I recently saw somebody ask Is Fedora accessible now ? To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it. A better question would be: Is this system usable for *me* ? Accessibility is about making our software usable (and, ideally, pleasant to use) for as many people as we can. It has been a year since we last gave an update on accessibility (a11y) in and around GTK. Time to look at what has happened in this space since then. On the surface, it might seem that the answer is: not much. But lets look a bit closer. A new backend We merged the AccessKit a11y backend in GTK 4.18. This is pretty big news for GTK on platforms other than Linux. For the very first time, GTK applications can be accessible on Windows and macOS. This is also the first rust dependency in GTK. If you want to try it out, build GTK with the -Daccesskit=enabled build option, and set GTK_A11Y=accesskit in the environment. The AccessKit ... Read full article.