I know the topic of running LXDE with Orca has surfaced here before.
Google searches seem to indicate that it is accessible but doesn't
offer rich enough keyboard navigation.
Last night I was investigating this more closely and am confused.
Ubuntu's LXDE metapackage installs openbox by default, and a bit of
digging reveals an openbox config with a number of keyboard shortcuts.
So I set about attempting to get this working, and am wondering if
whomever dit it can share how they managed? The first stumbling block
is that my default config uses SD, which is configured to use Pulse,
which isn't started automatically in the LXDE session. One quick SSH
later and I had in place a config file that uses ALSA. I then launched
SD, then Orca and got the "Welcome to Orca." message, but nothing
else.
From this I would conclude that accessibility and the necessary GTK
modules aren't loaded. As the load mechanism was apparently changed
late in the 2.24/Intrepid cycle, I'm not sure of the...no pun
intended...canonical way to load GTK modules. Are they being loaded in
gconf? A quick "grep -ri gail" in ~/.gconf reveals nothing, so I'm
guessing there's either some system-wide gconf scheme kicking in, or
that the GTK_MODULES environment variable is still being set
somewhere. If so, where would one set it such that Ubuntu's session
manager load mechanism picks it up?
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