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

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On  Fr 01 Dez 2017 01:02:25 CET, sirgazil wrote:

> 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?

Please note that LightDM GTK+ Greeter is _not_ Arctica Greeter.

If you are not scared of third party APT repositories, you can get a  
build of Arctica Greeter here:

```
deb http://packages.arctica-greeter.org/debian stretch main
```

The GnuPG Archive Key can be obtained this way:

```
wget -qO - http://packages.arctica-project.org/archive.key | sudo  
apt-key add -
```

Looking forward for your feedback! Orca can be enable in the greeter  
with ALT + SUPER + S.

Greets,
Mike
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