Re: [orca-list] accessible login with Orca

[George Kraft <gk4 austin ibm com>]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:41 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi George:
>
> "orca -n -d main-window" should be the right command, and this is the
> core of what works on Solaris for accessible login.  I've tried setting
> up accessible login recently on Ubuntu, however, and something seems
> wrong in the Ubuntu build.  I've dropped Henrik an e-mail on this with
> the hopes Ubuntu can fix it.
>
> I realize you're talking full time accessible login versus one that
> requires a specific keystroke to start Orca.  I've not tried this at
> all.  Does the keystroke-based approach to start Orca when gdm is
> running work for you?  

The timing for typing control+s for gdm is very time sensitive.  On an
FC6 system I might have to attempt it 1 to 15 times before gdm will
launch the screen reader.  Since I know that I want a screen reader
running every time during login, then I've added it
to /etc/gdm/Init/Default.

> If not, you can do the following in a
> gnome-terminal to start debugging the problem:
>
> GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:keymouselistener gcalctool
>
> Once gcalctool comes up (it fails on Ubuntu), keep focus on it and issue
> the appropriate keystroke to launch Orca.  Informational error messages
> should hopefully pop up in the gnome-terminal where you ran gcalctool.
> On Ubuntu, I get a BadDevice error, which is what I've sent to Henrik.

FC6's problem with gdm invoking the screen reader is that nobody is
actually logged in so the sound device is owned by root and gdm does not
have permission to use sound.  This should be fixed on Fedora 7.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204150

I'm still trying to figure out how to launch orca
from /etc/gdm/Init/Default.

George (gk4)