Re: [gdm-list] GDM 2.28 a11y issues

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Willie Walker

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> - A metacity error dialog appears when I log in.  The dialog contains a
> table.  The title of the table is 'These windows do no support "save current
> setup" and will have to be restarted manually next time you log in.'   The
> table consists of two columns. The first column is 'Class' and the second
> column is 'Window'.  The sole entry in the table is 'Login
> Window'/'Gdm-simple-greeter'.

Curious, this was supposed to be fixed with
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580189


> - There are no shortcuts to launch any assistive technology.  We probably
> need a community discussion about these if the same gestures are to be
> available at the login screen and the user session.

We do have the framework in place for these now. If you open the
keybinding capplet, there is a section for 'Accessibility' shortcuts,
with
'Toggle magnifier', 'Toggle screen reader' and 'Toggle on-screen keyboard'.
We just need to set suitable values for these and enable them in the
gdm session. We also added a mechanism to lock down the keybinding
gconf keys so that we can safely turn this on in the login session
without opening up security holes.

> - The gdm screen is launched without accessibility enabled.  As a result,
> GTK+ does not appear to load the a11y modules and the at-spi-registryd is
> not launched.  This yields the login screen inaccessible.  a11y probably
> should be enabled by default for the gdm screen, and this would hopefully
> fix the issues.

This is should be just a matter of setting
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility in the gdm session.


> - Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't seem to work any more (maybe an X Server
> configuration issue?).

This got converted from a server configuration thing to a regular xkb action.

> - The GOK keyboard does not reflect the physical keyboard layout (it
> probably should -- if not possible, it probably should reflect a
> PC-101/PC-102/etc. layout).  Instead, it's a minimal A-Z keyboard.  This
> simplified keyboard does not include an "Alt" key.

Seems that maybe we just need a different onscreen keyboard than gok ?
Our on-screen keyboard story is not particularly clear to me. In
Fedora, our input-method guys wrote their own, which looks a lot more
like a real keyboard (but has other issues).


Thanks for looking into this !

Matthias