Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

[intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>]

Hi,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote (01 May 2013 18:53:27 GMT) :
> Yes, your user session and the gdm session don't share the same settings, so you
> need to enable speech in the gdm session. You can do so from the accessibility
> menu in the top right corner, "Enable Screen Reader" option, assuming you're
> using gdm3 3.4.1-8.

https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#gdm_accessibility reads:

  "Then, you can enable orca with either of four ways: 
  * It is enabled automatically when accessibility features were
    enabled to access the Debian Installer
  * [...]"

So I'm wondering at what point we've lost this feature.

That page also says "Starting from Jessie, it can be enabled by typing
the menu-alt-s shortcut". I confirm this works fine both in my GNOME
Shell session on sid, and in GDM. This is good, but not as good as the
previous automatic behavior it seems we've used to have.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri