Re: [orca-list] Accessibility broken under Wayland Fedora 31

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de> wrote:
 
> May be he means that a running orca which would use pulseaudio by
> default blocks the audio device.
> Then you can't play sound using your console screenreader which runs
> with a dierent useraccount.

That is indeed one of the problems. A second problem (probably a manifestation
of the same issue) is that if you connect a USB audio device (e.g.,
headphones), audio from the console screen reader won't be redirected to it.

> This is not a new issue but unresolved since pulseaudio exists.

And it all works fine in every other non-Linux operating system that I've
tested.

The question is whether Pipewire offers a good opportunity to address these
long-standing issues. PulseAudio is going away, and Pipewire appears to have
substantially more features.