Most of the accessibility improvements in recent versions were mostly targeting keyboard navigation. While they benefit everybody, they don’t address the visual complications of a calendaring app, which doesn’t inherently simplify usability for screen reader users.
In most cases, both keyboard navigation and screen reader work in harmony; but in a calendaring app where we provide different views that display the same information in various layouts, I can imagine these views becoming cumbersome and redundant to screen reader users.
If I close my eyes and think of myself using a calendar app, the only thing I can theorize desiring is a linear list that allows me to go to the previous or next events, with some extra features. I imagine never needing a week or month view to navigate through them because these are fundamentally meant to be viewed. Of course, most screen reader users aren’t totally blind, so my theories are far from accurate.
However, I could be completely wrong, and there is a possibility that users would prefer to have access to all the views.
Crossposted from Figure out what to display/expose to screen reader users (#1634) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab