Bug #7500
Tails Greeter is not accessible
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Description
The greeter is inaccessible, it’s impossible to launch the accessibility tools. Tested on Tails 1.0.1 and 1.1 RC1.
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Related issues
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Rejected | 2014-07-06 | |
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| Related to Tails - Bug #7260: Persistence feature for Universal access | Confirmed | 2014-05-19 | |
| Related to Tails - Feature #11664: Improve usability of the Greeter with a screenreader | Confirmed | 2016-08-19 | |
| Related to Tails - Bug #12384: Forward Greeter accessibility settings to the GNOME session | Confirmed | 2017-03-19 |
History
#1 Updated by geb 2014-07-06 17:13:52
- Subject changed from Greeter just innaccessible to Greeter just inaccessible
- Status changed from New to Confirmed
#2 Updated by geb 2014-07-06 17:26:05
- Target version deleted (
Tails_1.1)
#3 Updated by sajolida 2014-07-07 11:03:56
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from Greeter just inaccessible to Accessibility tools in Tails Greeter
- Priority changed from High to Normal
#4 Updated by sajolida 2014-07-07 11:04:40
- Tracker changed from Feature to Bug
- Subject changed from Accessibility tools in Tails Greeter to Tails Greeter is not accessible
#5 Updated by sajolida 2014-07-07 11:05:21
- Type of work changed from Code to Research
Research how it would be possible to add accessibility tools to the Greeter.
#6 Updated by BitingBird 2014-07-07 16:31:54
- related to
Bug #7510: Add a syslinux option to start accessibility added
#7 Updated by intrigeri 2014-07-21 09:13:12
- Priority changed from Normal to High
Raising severity: if the Greeter was accessible, then one could at least set a root password, log in, and then work on other accessibility problems. This is currently impossible, so that’s a blocker for many potential accessibility improvements.
#8 Updated by hadi 2014-10-16 17:15:11
Easy solution: Add gnome-standard hotkeys to launch accessibility tools.
Example: Orca, the screen-reader for blind users.
Simply add a hotkey, (alt+super+S) to launch it. in the greeter.
#9 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-02 22:58:26
- related to
Feature #5563: Add virtual keyboard to Tails Greeter added
#10 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-07 17:21:34
- Affected tool set to Greeter
#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-15 18:14:50
The hotkey solution surely can work for Orca, which would be a pretty good start. It cannot work for all accessibility tools, though: some of them are precisely meant to enable anyone to use the system, regardless of their ability to type keyboard shortcuts => we’ll probably need some way to start such tools without using the keyboard, which likely requires integrating some widget one can use with a pointing device only in the Greeter’s UI, somehow.
#12 Updated by intrigeri 2015-04-11 10:09:26
- related to Bug #7260: Persistence feature for Universal access added
#13 Updated by sajolida 2015-08-14 12:21:46
- Target version set to 2017
#14 Updated by intrigeri 2016-08-23 00:45:14
- related to Feature #11664: Improve usability of the Greeter with a screenreader added
#15 Updated by intrigeri 2016-08-27 10:43:00
- Target version deleted (
2017)
#16 Updated by intrigeri 2016-12-22 18:15:59
- Description updated
This gets better in the new Greeter (currently alpha), but the settings chosen in the Greeter are not automatically forwarded to the GNOME session, so if one needs some accessibility tool, then they’ll need to enable it twice.
#17 Updated by alant 2017-03-19 17:33:58
- related to Bug #12384: Forward Greeter accessibility settings to the GNOME session added
#18 Updated by alant 2017-03-19 17:50:36
- Status changed from Confirmed to Duplicate
I’m closing this bug, that is too wide now that some accessibility works in tails’ 3.0~beta2 greeter. Work left to do is tracked by Bug #12384 and Feature #11664. Don’t hesitate to file new issues while testing 3.0~beta2.
#19 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-15 06:05:33
- Affected tool changed from Greeter to Welcome Screen