Re: [orca-list] getting gdm screen to talk

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> hmmm, isn't there an app to change the setting outside of gnome itself
> -- at least there used to be a way to do such things.  What I did do was
> to su - to gdm and run orca -t while there, would that do the trick?

This used to work for Debian and possibly still does. Note that it's a single
shell command. You may be able to modify it for your distribution.

su -s /bin/sh -c 'eval $(dbus-launch) ; export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID ; GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set
org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled true' Debian-gdm

This is taken from the debian-accessibility mailing list.