| | {{infobox |
| | | title = Vojtux |
| - | | image = vojtux.svg |
| - | | caption = A stylized terminal card for Vojtux — tty1 showing the distro name in Fedora blue, its Fedora base, and accessibility flags. |
| + | | image = fedora-mate-39.png |
| + | | caption = The Fedora MATE desktop. Vojtux ships this environment deliberately unchanged — it is a minimal accessibility respin, not a redesign. (Fedora Linux 39 MATE screenshot, GPL.) |
| | | base = Fedora |
| | | type = Unofficial accessibility respin |
| - | | developer = Vojtěch Polášek — a blind software engineer |
| + | | developer = Vojtěch Polášek — blind software engineer at Red Hat |
| + | | base_note = Fedora MATE spin (currently Fedora 43) |
| | | 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"]] |
| + | **Vojtux** is an unofficial Fedora-based distribution created by **Vojtěch Polášek**, a blind software engineer who works in Red Hat's security-compliance team — and 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. The project is deliberately minimal: Fedora's MATE spin with accessibility configuration, and nothing more — its stated ultimate vision is **"NO VOJTUX NEEDED!"** — the day Fedora is fully accessible, the respin retires itself.[[cite: github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux; orca-list announcement, Oct 2022]][[cite: It's FOSS — "Best Linux Distributions for Visually Impaired People"]] |
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| | 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]] |
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| | # Features |
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| | - 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 |
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| | # In the Fedora 45 debates |
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| | 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]]. |
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| | # See also |
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| | - [[Accessible-Coconut]] · [[Stormux]] · [[Slint Linux|Slint]] · [[Vojtux]] · [[Adriane Knoppix]] · [[Vinux]] · [[Sonar Linux|Sonar]] |
| | - [[Fedora 45]] · [[Why Debian Is Still King]] |
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| | [[Category:Linux]] |
| | [[Category:Accessibility]] |
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