Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login on Arch Linux plus Gnome 2.30

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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No, You have to hit enter between the user and password.  Furthermore,
once it has your regular user in mind, you only need to hit enter and
the prompt will then ask for your password.  After typing it in and
hearing Orca say "star" for each password character you type, hit
enter and then you should eventually hear the gnome startup sound (if
you have that enabled).  Following that, Orca should restart and say
"Welcome to Orca." Of course, if you haven't run Orca on this box at
all, you may need to make the configuration choices as documented
elsewhare.  

That's one reason I personally people should start getting into gnome
from a native text console session and use 'startx' to start x and get
things in basic order first and then mess about with gdm.  Maybe one
day gdm will just talk out of the box and Orca will know what speech
settings to use but you can see that will require some decision making
on the part of the individual user using this accessible environment.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:47:48PM -0300, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> OK, I got Orca to read a little more info at the gdm login window by
> following Steve's tip below and making a symbolic link to
> /usr/lib/gdm.
>
> When Orca starts, it reads the title of the logon window. If I type
> my username and password without pressing any other key, Orca goes
> spelling it as it should be. But whenever I tab or try using the
> review keys to explore the window, Orca appears to try to speak
> something, then it stops speaking, gets silent, and I cannot login
> anymore.
>
> I'd apreciate any solution for it, but now I can at least have
> speech while logging as long as I type the username and password
> straightforwardly.
>
> Thanks,
> Cleverson
>
> Steve Holmes escreveu:
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> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:03:15PM -0300, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> > > ...
> > > The only differences are that such instructions talk about Gnome
> > > 2.28 and I'm using Gnome 2.30. Also, when it told me to change to
> > > the /usr/libexec directory and make a symbolic link, I verified that
> > > such directory didn't exist, so I created it and made that symbolic
> > > link by copying and pasting the command given at the web page.
> > >
> > > When I start gdm, Orca speaks "welcome to Orca" and then gets
> > > silent, no matter what key I press. Please give some advice in case
> > > it's possible to make it accessible.
> >
> > Yeah, I need to update the wiki; something changed in gnome 2.30.  the
> > symlink needs to be moved to /usr/lib/gdm and still point to the same
> > place it did before.  I don't think we need the one in /usr/liexec
> > anymore.  I discovered that issue with the recent updates to gnome
> > 2.30 on Arch a couple weeks ago.
> >
> > Try that and see if it works for you.  When I made that change, I
> > seemed to have some problems at first but that seems to have cleared
> > up since so not sure if anything else needs to be done.  As is, I
> > almost forgot what I did to get gdm to work again.
> >
> > Actually, since then, I've gone back to using startx from a normal
> > user account to get xclip to work right.  But that's another matter
> > for another thread.<smile>
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