Nicolas: > Any way to make sure that A11Y is enabled by default, with toggle keys > also enabled by default (but actual A11Y features disabled by default)?
I am not sure what you mean by a11y being enabled but actual features disabled. If you check "text-to-speech" in the a11y dialog, this launches the configured text-to-speech program (e.g. orca) immediately. The new GDM will honor the system or gdm user preferences for launching AT programs when the GDM login GUI starts up. So it is easy to configure a system, or a LiveCD so that a particular AT program or programs be used with the GDM login GUI. I understand that the Solaris a11y team provides an accessibility LiveCD with different choices in the GRUB menu which launch GNOME with certain a11y features turned on by default, depending on the GRUB selection. So, it would be easy to also configure such a LiveCD to make GDM to launch the appropriate default AT programs as desired. Brian