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

[Mike Gabriel]

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
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