Re: [gdm-list] What's the Status of Audio in GDM?

[Janina Sajka <janina a11y org>]

Matthias Clasen writes:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:28 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > As we've been testing GDM for accessibility support on Fedora 9, we
> > continue to note the lack of audio support. This means that a screen
> > reader user has no way to know when it's OK to login.
> > 
> > There is no "beep" on backspace at the Login and Passwd entry. More
> > seriously still:
> > 
> > SoundOnLogin=true
> > SoundOnLoginFile=[some].wav
> > 
> > in /etc/gdm/custom.conf continues broken.
> > 
> > Of course we're needing the additional benefit of starting Orca for TTS
> > via Ctrl-s, Orca with braille via Ctrl-b, etc. I can't comment on
> > anything other than sound myself, but will be happy to investigate the
> > other gestures if that's desired. But, what should we expect for sound?
> > 
> 
> What version are you trying out ?
> Ray has been fixing the speech support in gdm; and I have had orca read
> the user list to me, personally.


Interesting. We ourselves have not gotten it to work on several machines here during
the F-9 beta cycle. In fact, we've not gotten Ctrl-S gestures to start
reading via Orca since F-7.
In fact, we've not gotten Ctrl-S gestures to start reading via Orca
since F-7.
In fact, we've not gotten Ctrl-S gestures to start reading via Orca
since F-7.
In fact, we've not gotten Ctrl-S gestures to start reading via Orca
since F-7.

Our F-9 machines are all now running gdm-2.22.0-1.fc9. This includes
both i386 and x86_64.

Another problem for all of this, as I understand things, is pulseaudio
which isn't available until AFTER a successful login. Thus, there's
nothing to play sound, by default, even once SoundOnLogin is restored in
GDM. If we disable pulseaudio, we still don't have SoundOnLogin from the
newer GDM, of course. Hopefully, GDM will add that back. It's important
for screen reader users, needless to say. On F-8, with pulseaudio
disabled and running GDM-2.20, we do have SoundOnLogin.

> 
> If you could compile a list of 'standard' keyboard shortcuts for a11y on
> the login screen, that would be very useful, and we'll make sure to have
> them implemented asap.


I believe the following would be noncontroversial:

Ctrl-S	Start Orca with speech
Ctrl-B	Start Orca with braille
Ctrl-M	Start Orca with magnification

However, we need to consider the wider range of a11y issues as has
already been suggested. I support the suggestion to create a page for
considering various dwell and aother alternate input approaches.

Thanks for your prompt response on this.

Janina

> 
> 
> Thanks, Matthias
> 
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