Re: wishlist: tamtam at login is blindfriendlier than silence ...

[Willie Walker <William.Walker@sun.com>]

Hi All:

Accessible login has worked on Solaris and OpenSolaris for a long time. 
 We recently uncovered some issues in development builds but have fixed 
them.  The gdm maintainer has also made some upstream fixes (or is at 
least working on them) recently.

Will

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi Mario,
>
> Have you enabled accessibility for the gdm user???
> If you use gnome-speech, the gdm-user should be added to group audio as well.
>
> On my machine (lenny) ctrl+s does nothing.
> Can you explain your steps to get orca running in gdm?
> Thanks
> Halim
>
> On Mi, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:25:17 +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> >
> > > Erik Heil, le Fri 20 Feb 2009 09:26:03 -0500, a écrit :
> > > > As far as Orca talking at login, it was my understanding that
> > > > accessible login under Debian-based distros was still broken.
> > > Is there a bug report for this? I can't find any on http://bugs.debian.org/gdm
> > There is, AFAIK no bug for this, but the "problem" is known for a long time.
> > I basically never filed a bug since I never figured out what it actually
> > is.  When the accesskeys module is activated in gdm, you can configure
> > to launch Orca with a certain key combination, and the
> > trigger actually works.  However, Orca hangs with the "Welcome to Orca"
> > message being displayed in braille.  I am really wondering if
> > this actually works on any other distro.
> >
> > > Bugs that are not reported can not magically be fixed.
> > Thats true of course.  I am just not 100% sure if this is a upstream issue,
> > or if the packaging is really at fault.
> >
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