Re: [orca-list] Tails installation accessibility

[Cory Samaha <csamaha86 gmail com>]

Hi,
Yes, the setup of the persistent storage partition is exactly what I am referring to. To clarify, this is a 
known accessibility bug, and nothing to do with qt support, correct? I need to look more closely at the bug 
you linked to. Thank you for directing this to the correct people.
Regards,
Cory

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> On Feb 15, 2019, at 1:00 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi debian org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr> (2019-02-15):
> > Oh, it looks like it's not related to Debian, it's related to the Tail
> > installer.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the Tails installer. As I know the live image of
> > Debian is not accessible and the installer inside the Debian live
> > image is not accessible.
>
> For context, there are two very different things:
> - the tails-installer package, which was useful to create a Tails
>   system; this became obsolete with the Tails 3.12 release, which comes
>   under both an ISO form (as before) and an USB image that can be used
>   directly. More details on: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.12/
> - the persistence-setup component of the Tails system, which makes it
>   possible to enable a persistent partition.
>
> I think what Cory is referring to is the latter, for which some tickets
> exist already; you can check the tickets linked from the generic Tails
> vs. accessibility ticket:
>  https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/14522
>
> If you're encountering issues that aren't documented in our tracker yet,
> feel free to open a new ticket with the details:
>  https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/projects/tails
>
> I'm putting the tails-dev mailing list in copy so that I'm not the only
> one getting answers if there are any issues regarding filing a new
> ticket (please use reply-all).
>
> > > Le 15/02/2019 à 14:20, Cory Samaha a écrit :
> > > Hi Alex,
> > > I assume you are on the Debian accessibility team?  My issue here is that I am running Tails and am 
> > > trying to create a persistent storage volume with the included tool, but none of the controls appear to 
> > > read.  And in order to make changes to my .profile settings stick permanently I need persistent storage.  
> > > So, it’s kind of a chicken and egg situation.  Have you dealt with Tails before?  If so, is this in fact 
> > > a QT based app?  I did check, and qt-at-spi does seem to be installed by default, but there are just 
> > > certain apps where Orca isn’t reading.  Maybe it’s easy to blame it on QT, but I actually am not exactly 
> > > sure what the problem is.  Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Cory
>
>
> Cheers,
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