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There's a reason why Apple is the poster child for accessibility. They control the entire stack from hardware to OS, and have an ocean of money to devote to what is effectively a tiny marginalized portion of their user base.
Open source is the exact opposite. Any given open source project (especially any given Linux distro) is standing atop a precarious mound of other open source projects that the distro maintainers themselves have no control over. So when accessibility breaks, the maintainers say "It's not us, it's GNOME". Then GNOME says "It's not us, it's Wayland", and so on.
Imagine I handed you a laptop without a working screen, then when you complain you can't use it, I said "It's not my problem" or "We'll get to it eventually" or "I wouldn't know how to help you" That's desktop Linux when you're blind.
Apologies if this comes across as a rant. I'm just bitter about the fact there's all this free, privacy-respecting software out there that's out of my reach, and I'm stuck selling my soul to Microsoft and Apple.