Arthur Pemberton writes: > I have a lot of seemingly pulse audio related issues on my F9 desktop. > Since I really like the idea behind Pulseaudio, I would like to see > these get sorted out, and would like to know how I can help in terms > of providing useful information. > Well, let me step up to say that I feel the same way. Pulse Audio holds great promise for accessibility, but it ain't working out in practice yet. And, some of us are scratching our heads as to how we get from here to there. The problems we have right now are sufficiently sever to be showstoppers. At the SpeakupModified.Org we recommend disabling pulseaudio. As things stand in F-9, one gets no audio until after a user logs in on the GUI. So, how are those who need screen reader support supposed to use the a11y features of GDM? As it stands, there seems no way to get console audio without that GUI login. Also a nonstarter in the screen reader user community. It seems a useful initial step toward resolution is to run pulseaudio as a system daemon, via an init script, /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig. The trade-offs vs the per user model that F-9 employs are probably more than acceptable to most a11y users. So, let me simply ask ... Has anyone a working init script for pulseaudio as a system daemon? Anything close that we could continue to refine as an alternative configuration option for Fedora? Janina Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@xxxxxxxx Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxx Linux Foundation http://a11y.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
