Hi, On Monday, December 4, 2017, sirgazil wrote: > On 04/12/17 06:18, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fr 01 Dez 2017 01:02:25 CET, sirgazil wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > Please note that LightDM GTK+ Greeter is _not_ Arctica Greeter. > > > Yes, I know that. I was referring to the default greeter that is used in > Debian when you select the Mate desktop in the installation process. > > > > If you are not scared of third party APT repositories, you can get a > > build of Arctica Greeter here: > > > > ``` > > deb http://packages.arctica-greeter.org/debian stretch main > > ``` > > > > The GnuPG Archive Key can be obtained this way: > > > > ``` > > wget -qO - http://packages.arctica-project.org/archive.key | sudo > > apt-key add - > > ``` > > > > Looking forward for your feedback! Orca can be enable in the greeter > > with ALT + SUPER + S. > > > Well, in this particular case, only Debian stable repositories are allowed. > > I'd like to try this workaround on my machine, though, but trying to add > the GPG Archive Key failed: > > # apt-key add archive.key > gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found > >
Does archive.key really contain a GPG public key? It seems that the key block is missing in the file you use as archive.key. Please check with a text editor or pager... Mike -- Sent from my Fairphone 2 (running Sailfish OS)