Re: [g-a-devel] Access GDM -- themeable greeter

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Henrick:

> It seems that the lack of accessibility support in the themeable greeter 
> is a major blocker for providing universal access at login (since this 
> version is widely used).

Since some setup is required to turn-on accessibility anyway, I'm not
sure that it is such a big deal that GDM requires you to configure
to use gdmlogin instead of gdmgreeter for accessibility.

Note that for many a11y needs, gdmgreeter does work okay.  I have
heard that it works okay with text-to-speech and braille.  GDM
probably can be configured to work with GOK, but since gdmgreeter
does not support STRUTS getting the gdmgreeter theme and GOK to
play well together is probably a bit of work.

> See bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355005
>
> Does anyone know how we can make progress on this?

Also note the following bugs relating to a11y in gdmgreeter:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363003
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380575

I think these three bugs cause a11y to not work so well when
using gdmgreeter.

Brian