Colin Walters writes: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Chuck Anderson writes: > >>> > >>> Audio works on the GDM login screen. Orca starts and reads the login > >>> window to me... > >> > >> > >> What Fedora? And, what GDM? This worked, hmm, perhaps 60-70% for me back > >> in Fedora 8. But GDM has gone through a massive rewrite since then. None > >> of the users I'm in touch with have gotten this to work on F-9 or later. > > > > I just tried this too with GDM, and got speech too. I right clicked > > in the lower left of the screen, checked the "Read text" option, and > > moused over and heard sound. Have you filed a bug about this issue? > > Incidentally you should be able to enable this by default so sightless > people don't have the bootstrapping problem of enabling TTS. There is > some documentation on the new GDM configuration here: > http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration > I'm sure personal machines will be set up with this as a default, once all the bugs are cleared. One known issue, last it was working in F-8, is that you could get speech via GDM, or speech on the Desktop after login--but not both. Rather a bug. Also, the intent is that Ctrl-s needs to be available so that any GNOME desktop, whether your sister's, your neighbor's, the university's, or the local coffee stand's, can work via a reliable "gesture." Janina > Unfortunately GConf is overly complex to use (a bug we would like to > fix), but this page describes how to use GConf to set GDM's > system-wide settings: > > https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide/s1-ddg-intro-gconf-default-mandatory.html > > So for example: > sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source > xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type=boolean -s > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/accessibility/screen_reader_enabled true > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- 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
