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?
