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#1 Updated by alant 2016-08-16 14:54:16

When launched in a desktop session (with some tweaks to make errors non-fatal), the greeter has some things being read by the screen reader. On the other hand, when launching gedit in the greeter session, nothing happens. So the greeter session seem to miss a required component for the screenreader to work. But ps shows that orca is working.

#2 Updated by alant 2016-08-16 15:29:22

I tried it add Debian-gdm to the audio group, as suggested by https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/gdm.html#accessibility but it’s not enough.

#3 Updated by alant 2016-08-16 15:45:45

The screen reader works fine under a standard instralled debian jessie’s greeter. The same processes seem to be running…

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2016-08-17 00:26:43

> When launched in a desktop session (with some tweaks to make errors non-fatal), the greeter has some things being read by the screen reader. On the other hand, when launching gedit in the greeter session, nothing happens. So the greeter session seem to miss a required component for the screenreader to work. But ps shows that orca is working.

Did you look in the Journal, e.g. for firewall rejection messages? Our firewall grants access to TCP port 4101 to the amnesia user, but there’s no such thing about the Debian-gdm user.

#6 Updated by alant 2016-08-17 02:42:51

Allowing Debian-gdm access to port 4101 indeed fixed the issue. Thanks!