Wow, if you cut out pages from a completely accessible pdf and make a new pdf using preview on MacOS, Sequoia, it produces completely inaccessible pdf.
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Wow, if you cut out pages from a completely accessible pdf and make a new pdf using preview on MacOS, Sequoia, it produces completely inaccessible pdf. Also the file size get much bigger. I guess it just makes into pdf with images? It didn't use to do that! #accessibility #macos
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@chikim This is the sad reality of #MacOS - with every new version you get the unwelcome surprise of random features in Apple's software that used to work great, but are now broken. It's part of the reason I finally switched to #Linux, which although far from perfect, doesn't tend to give you those kinds of headaches. Plus I got sick of updates that took well over an hour to install, granted my Mac Mini was getting a bit long in the tooth but if I wanted to I could put Linux on that, and I am sure that updates would be much faster. Even installing Linux from scratch takes far less time than installing MacOS!
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@maple Unfortunately, the sad reality is that Linux isn't a viable option for me. At least in my opinion, its accessibility, especially for screen readers, is, (let's just put it very mildly) not welcoming. Whenever I have to use Linux for server and machine learning related stuff, I end up doing everything via ssh logged in from another machine that's more screen reader friendly. Also, I'm in the music tech industry, almost no one (except maybe a very very tiny fraction) uses Linux.
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@chikim I just wanted to pass along a bit of information you may find interesting given your previous comment about accessibility in Linux, and that is that I was watching a video last night about #PopOS and the #Cosmic desktop, which right now is still in alpha, and that is that they specifically said that accessibility was one of their goals. I would wait until it is out of alpha and beta (probably sometime in early 2025) before giving it a try, if you have any interest in Linux at that point, because I don't think the accessibility features have been implemented yet. But if you do have any interest you might want to wait for the release version and check it out, or at least ask around and see if it's any more compatible with screen readers than the current Linux distros.
In fact if you were so motivated, maybe there is a way you could contact the PopOS developers and volunteer to help test their accessibility features. But you would probably only want to do that if you had any interest in using Linux, and I kind of got the impression you don't, at least not yet. But I still wanted to let you know that there's some hope accessibility in Linux will improve.
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@maple Thanks! That's awesome! Although there have been atempts from other Linux like Ubuntu and Raspberry PiOS, including blind programmers trying to make their own custom distro, it wasn't that great just because there are many inaccessible apps out there on Linux to begin with. Also when next major version with new GUI comes out, it would break the whole thing. Although OS is a great start, but the whole culture around the ecosystem has to change IMHO.
