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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Jenux uses pulseaudio and may have fixed this problem in the installer
which had an iso released on February 3, 2020.
The pick speaker script didn't work for me in the January 15, 2020 iso
release.

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Jason White via orca-list wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:35:22
> From: Jason White via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Reply-To: Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessibility broken under Wayland Fedora 31
>
> 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.
>
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