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Comparing rev 2 → rev 3

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| title = Vojtux
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| image = vojtux.svg
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| caption = A stylized terminal card for Vojtux — tty1 showing the distro name in Fedora blue, its Fedora base, and accessibility flags.
| base = Fedora
| type = Unofficial accessibility respin
| developer = Vojtěch Polášek — a blind software engineer
| status = Community project
| screen_readers = Orca (forced at login screen)
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**Vojtux** is an unofficial Fedora-based distribution created by a blind software engineer who lives inside the problem: when your daily driver is a mainstream distro, every upstream "improvement" that breaks accessibility is a change you feel personally. Vojtux exists so that [[Fedora 45|Fedora]]'s own churn stops mattering to the people it hurts first.[[cite: It's FOSS — "Best Linux Distributions for Visually Impaired People"]]
Where mainstream Fedora treats accessibility as a session the user opts into, Vojtux inverts the assumption: **Orca runs instantly at the login screen** — the desktop is accessible before a user has even authenticated. It pre-configures specialized **Qt accessibility flags** system-wide (a frequent blind spot in mixed GTK/Qt environments), and ships custom scripts to toggle hardware monitor output on and off — for a blind user, a glowing screen is a privacy leak, not a feature.[[cite: It's FOSS — visually impaired Linux distributions]]
# Features
- Orca screen reader active from the login screen — no sighted handoff
- System-wide Qt accessibility configuration
- Monitor toggle scripts — the display is optional hardware
- Full Fedora base: packages, repositories, tooling unchanged
- Maintained by someone who personally depends on every decision in it
# In the Fedora 45 debates
Vojtux is the gentlest possible indictment of upstream churn: a respin of Fedora built specifically because Fedora keeps breaking its own accessibility story. See [[The Hat Tips Both Ways]].
# See also
- [[Accessible-Coconut]] · [[Stormux]] · [[Slint Linux|Slint]] · [[Vojtux]] · [[Adriane Knoppix]] · [[Vinux]] · [[Sonar Linux|Sonar]]
- [[Fedora 45]] · [[Why Debian Is Still King]]
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