Re: freeze break for a11y support

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Matthias was doing some a11y testing and noticed that the screen
> reader menu item doesn't work at the login screen:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684474
>
> After some yak shaving later, we were able to get it to working okay
> by applying this gnome-session patch:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663721
>
> the patches in the original gdm bug report, and some gnome-shell patches:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684728
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684727
>
> Would be great if we could get this working in 3.6.0

The gnome-shell patches have already landed. I've now tried the gdm
and gnome-session patches, and they make orca work on my login screen.
gdm was still working fine otherwise, so +1 from me.