First impressions of accessible Debian
I just installed Debian netinst with the desktop environment.
I like the new accessible installer in that I'm able to get a basic
system up and running.
However, I've encountered the following problems in the first few
minutes of using the new system:
1. After boot, speakup starts reading all the boot messages, most of
which I don't care about. I can control alt f1 and silence it, but in
this case, that's an extra step if I assume I'm already focused on the
graphical login soon after.
2. After logging in, I hear welcome to Orca. I get no feedback from
anything until I press alt+control+tab, alt f1 to access the menu or
alt f2 to run an application.
The keys I expect to report, such as caps and num lock, don't say
anything. Nor do any of the Orca keys such as insert+space to open the
preferences until I do this.
3. After reading a capital letter, eSpeak's pitch doesn't lower.
4. The orca preferences dialogs are confusing. If I shift+tab to the
tab control, pressing the right arrow to move to the next one puts me
in a random place in the current page's dialog. If I shift+tab past
the tab control, I miss the Help, Apply, Cancel and OK buttons.
5. Once I'm logged into gnome, I lose my console speech.
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