Re: Improving the accessibility of our GNOME session
Hi,
Thanks for this useful analysis of the current situation. I plan to do a
test from scratch after freeze. My recent tests in sid were not very
positive: I had crashes pressing shift-f10 on Accessories Menu (to see
the result), I don't find any way to shut down the computer, my braille
keyboard doesn't seem to work on gdm3, etc. Then, but I know it's an
upstream stuff, gnome3 is much less customisable, in particular in
shortcut keys. The most problematic in my opinion is various crashes. As
I guess it's my install I'll try again from scratch on wheezy. But so
far, I stay worry.
Thanks very much anyway and... let's see for next tests.
Best regards,
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le jeudi 21 juin 2012 à 18:13 +0200, Jordi Mallach a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> With the upload of GDM 3.4, I understand we're closer to have something
> that is a bit more acceptable in terms of a11y in our default desktop
> setup.
>
> I've been discussing with the GNOME a11y people, and I think we need a
> few bits still:
>
> - Clutter: we should try to get these two patches applied, so screen
> reading works as expected:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?id=cafcf14e0e199df65842359d95c6595de46ad32b
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?id=0d4d467dd55ac23151a32e52195d47b6ab7706ca
>
> - GNOME Shell: we need this patch so we get Orca activation back in the
> menu:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=e6f5e21b5d416746dd19628791bc93c43dc382f1
>
> All seem trivial, non-intrusive patches.
>
> Second, we need a way to activate Orca using a keypress in the GDM
> greeter.
> Something like:
> gsettings set 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys' screenreader '<Primary>s'
>
> (or whatever keybinding we think is good enough) for the Debian-gdm user
> should work, but I'm not sure how to do that in a sane way. Joss?
>
> Note setting that key as the gdm3 user didn't make orca start when
> pressing control-s at the greeter. We need to look a big deeper into this,
> but I won't be able to do anything until after my exams.
>
> Jordi
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