Hi Brian: Thanks! I think the OpenSUSE folks also ran into the same problem. JP seemed to think this change might have been the source of confusion: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gdm2/trunk/gui/gdmcommon.c?r1=5263&r2=5262&pathrev=5263. This change seemed to go in with http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gdm2?view=revision&revision=5263.
I'm not an expert in how various distributions build things, though, so I'm just passing on what I understood. Will Brian Cameron wrote: > Janina: > > Some thoughts from the GDM maintainer... > > >> Accessible login appears to be broken on every Linux distribution. As >> Will points out, this is an issue with distributions. Nevertheless, it's >> a serious issue for accessibility. >> > > I recently worked with Ubuntu to fix their problems with accessibility > so I think their recent releases should be working. Their problem was > that they install the at-spi-registryd to a non-default location and > they needed to fix the way they call configure to specify the location > of the registry daemon. This might be a problem for other distros? > > There also have been some useful a11y related bug fixes in GDM 2.20, > so I would recommend using the latest & greatest. > > >> The email below discusses Ubuntu. At the Gnome A11y Summit this weekend >> we verified that Suse is broken. My own experience indicates that Fedora >> 7 and Fedora 7.91 are broken. >> > > It would be helpful if people were to file bugs or explain on the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list what the problems are. I'd be happy to > help. The GDM documentation at the following link has some help > in the "Accessibility" section to explain how to debug some common > accessibility issues with GDM: > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs.html > > >> Now that our assistive technologies have passed from mostly >> developmental software into the realm of usable tools for real people >> with disabilities, this situation is no longer tolerable. We must call >> on all distributions to institute procedures to insure that accessible >> login gets fixed and stays fixed. This will require regular testing, as >> there are many ways to break accessible login. >> > > There are some well known bugs/issues with accessibility. For example, > it doesn't work so well with gdmgreeter and some AT programs. You > probably need to switch to using gdmlogin if you really need to use an > AT that can interact with the widgets. gdmgreeter would require some > work to really support accessibility properly. It's main problem is > the way it uses GnomeCanvas for building the theme, and the fact that > it doesn't support keyboard navigation. > > Also, failsafe xterm isn't accessible. Perhaps GDM should be > configurable so you could use it with gnome-terminal, which does support > accessibility? > > gdmsetup is also not accessible, and probably can't be as long as it > requires that you run it as root. > > Brian > > > >> Willie Walker writes: >> >>> Hi Guy: >>> >>> The last time I looked, accessible login was broken on Gutsy. I sent >>> information off to the Ubuntu folks for tracking the problem down, but >>> I'm not sure where they stand with it right now. >>> >>> There's some information on Accessible Login here: >>> >>> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.18/accessibility.html >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> Will >>> >>> PS - Accessible login does indeed work - I've tested it on OpenSolaris. >>> >>> Guy Schlosser wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, how do you enable accessible login in Gutsy? After I >>>> updated last night, I now have the login sound, but orca does not >>>> start automaticly. Any suggestions? Also, is there something that >>>> needs to be done in order to have Orca read items where you have to >>>> be root to administer? Finally, one last question. I noticed that >>>> firefox 3 was in the Gutsy universe repos. Why isn't that updated >>>> after alpha7. Alpha 8 has been released and a9pre is >>>> current. Thanks much in advance for any help. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> >>>> Guy >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Orca-list mailing list >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list >>>> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Orca-list mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list >>> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca >>> > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility