Bug#864837: screenreader stops speaking

[Mika Hanhijärvi]

Package: gnome-orca
Version: 3.22.2-3
Severity: grave

Hi

I am sorry that I repport this so close to release of Stretch.

I am not really sure to which package I should report this bug. I am not sure
if this bug is in Orca, Pulseaudio, speech-dispatcher or someething else. I
think it might be problem with Pulseaudio, or maybe not. Really do not know.

Note that I tryed to send this bug report earlier but my laptop did run out of
battery when reportbug was sending the bug report so bug report probably was
not sent. I first tryed to send itthe bug report to pulseaudio, but I am now
thinking that maybe I should reportit o Orca so that Debian accessibility guys
get notified about this. I am really sorry if thiscauses mess and a duplicate
bug report to two packages.

I am blind so I have to use computer using the screen reader. So it is
important for me that screen reader works relealibly.

I have espeakup and Orca installed. I would like to use espeakup on console and
Orca on desktop. I also would like to be able to switch between text mode
console and graphical nome desktop without logging out from the desktop.
Currently that does not work. I have two laptops and both have this problem.
Note that I have not made clean Stretch installation, Ihave upgraded my systems
to Stretch.


For some reason if espeakup sppeaks something when the computer is booting then
screen reader does not speak anytging on GDM login screen. If that happens then
screen reader also does not speak at all on desktop. This makes it impossible
for me to login to desktop or use the deshtop. I have noticed that if I go to
text console then eseakup speaks just fin.

If espeakup does not speak anytging then screen reader speaks on GDM login
screen. If I go to text console then espeakup does not speak at all. If I login
to desktop then Orca screen reader speaks just fine. If I login to desktop then
this also happens: If I switch from desktop to GDM login screen thusing the
ctrl + alt + f1 then screen reader does not speak on GDM login screen at all.
If I then return to desktop then Orca screen reader on desktop speaks again
just fine. If I switch form desktop to text console using e.g ctrl + alt + f3
then espeakup does not speak at all on console. If I then switch back to
desktothen Orca speaks again on desktop just fine.


If I logout from desktop to gdm login screen then screen reader speaks on gdm
login screen.

So it seems that the sc reader works just on one of the following views:
console, gdm or desktop. It is not possible to switch between those. That is
not good.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-orca depends on:
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.50.0-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.22.11-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.40.5-1
ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0            3.20.1-3
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.22.0-1
ii  python3                    3.5.3-1
ii  python3-brlapi             5.4-7
ii  python3-cairo              1.10.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  python3-gi                 3.22.0-2
ii  python3-louis              3.0.0-3
ii  python3-pyatspi            2.20.3+dfsg-1
ii  python3-speechd            0.8.6-4
ii  speech-dispatcher          0.8.6-4

Versions of packages gnome-orca recommends:
ii  libgail-common  2.24.31-2
ii  xbrlapi         5.4-7

gnome-orca suggests no packages.

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