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In light of Mozilla's recent terms-of-service bullshit (and well, the years of enshittification preceding that too)...

Here's a reminder that Servo:
- Is an independent browser engine that exists,
- Is no longer a Mozilla project,
- But *is* being actively developed and maintained,
- And needs your help and contributions to make it a full-fledged alternative!

book.servo.org/contributing.ht

(Its current primary objective is defined as being an "embeddable browser engine" but this is only the first step, and more importantly, it's where 95% of the work in "building a complete browser" lies)

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@joepie91 Not accessible. Librewolf for the win.

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@serrebi By this point Servo is not even a usable feature-complete browser yet; a lot of stuff is missing, so I'm not at all surprised that accessibility would be one of those things.

I don't know what their exact plans on accessibility are, but based on the general community around it, I would expect it to be considered, but for it to take some time because it's essentially a from-scratch implementation of a lot of things including UI integrations.

(The 'actionable' part right now is mainly for developers who can contribute towards making it a usable browser engine, less so for end users)

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@serrebi (The background for my original post is mostly that a lot of people don't know that Servo is alive again, and "them contributing to Servo" probably gets us to a viable alternative faster than "everybody building their own incomplete alternative browser" would)

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@serrebi A little further investigation turned up these two threads:

github.com/servo/servo/issues/
github.com/servo/servo/issues/

It seems that the situation can be summarized as "screenreader integration is wanted but going to be a lot of work and nobody has really gotten around to it yet; and the off-the-shelf library for it isn't feature-complete enough yet to support the complexity of a browser".

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@joepie91 I'm glad it's being talked about, beyond we don't really want to do this haha.

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