Fedora has been shipping with a system that does not have a unified concept of what’s on the screen for years. It’s called GNOME 3. Ever tried to interact with

Fedora has been shipping with a system that does not have a unified concept of what’s on the screen for years. It’s called GNOME 3. Ever tried to interact with the modal thingy that asks for a WiFi password as though it were a dialog box? It doesn’t work well, because it’s a figment of gnome-shell’s imagination and not actually a dialog box. (Or at least this was the case the last time I tried to figure out what was going on, which was a while ago.) I know very little about how A11y is plumbed under the hood, but I’m not surprised that it struggles with gnome-shell. I suspect there’s a functioning middle ground between Windows XP-style or X11-style “everything is a window, even security sensitive overlays like the lock screen” and GNOME-style “everything is either a surface with no particular semantics or something produced directly by the shell”.