Bug#883094: Accessibility: Mate: Screen reader is not available in login screen

[sirgazil]

On 30/11/17 04:38, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On  Mi 29 Nov 2017 16:59:27 CET, sirgazil wrote:
> 
>> Package: mate-desktop
>> Version: 1.16.2-2
>>
>> I'm using Debian Linux zenme 4.9.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 
>> (2017-09-28) i686 GNU/Linux.
>>
>> When a blind person starts the computer, they don't have any way of 
>> knowing whether the login screen has loaded or not. The system does 
>> not provide any aural cues for blind users, so they have to call 
>> sighted people to help them log in.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback on accessibility.
> 
> Please note that the MATE desktop does not come with a login manager 
> itself. It uses a "3rd party product" for session login management.
> 
> The default display manager in use for MATE desktop installations is 
> LightDM.
> 
> Please also note that I have recently uploaded the Arctica Greeter, a 
> fork from Ubuntu's Unity Greeter. Arctica Greeter, like Unity Greeter, 
> sends a little drum roll to the speaker, so there is indeed an accoustic 
> signal that the greeter has loaded and the computer is ready for login.
> 
> The greeter has Orca support built-in, so you can enable it (or have it 
> enabled by default as a system-wide setting that survives reboot of the 
> computer). Orca then will read to you the different text fragments you 
> find on the login screen.
> 
> I will ping you via this bug, once the Arctica Greeter has landed in 
> Debian testing.
> 
> Please note that such changes as requested / proposed cannot be made in 
> a Debian stable release, so we need to look forward regarding this and 
> improve ourselves for Debian 10 (aka buster).
> 
> Thanks for your input!
> Mike


Thank you for the information, Mike.

I'd like to add that working around this problem by activating Orca 
screen reader in the LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings is not possible 
because the greeter hangs when doing so (see 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883215).

So it seems Debian 9 with Mate is currently not accessible at all to 
blind users?