Bug #8371

Incomplete screen reader support in Jessie

Added by intrigeri 2014-12-03 11:01:23 . Updated 2015-11-10 12:03:56 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Elevated
Assignee:
Category:
Accessibility
Target version:
Tails_2.0
Start date:
2014-12-03
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Test
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:
269

Description

See Feature #8314 for a discussion and research results about that.

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocked by Tails - Bug #10173: Make shutdown-helper in Jessie compatible with Orca Resolved 2015-09-08

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-12-18 11:13:03

  • Priority changed from Normal to Elevated

Needs to be tackled ASAP while it’s still imaginable to get fixes into Jessie. Any taker?

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-12-18 11:14:17

  • Assignee set to intrigeri

#3 Updated by anonym 2014-12-18 12:16:43

  • blocks Bug #8313: Make sure the services we disable at boot time indeed don't start on Jessie added

#4 Updated by anonym 2014-12-18 12:16:59

  • blocked by deleted (Bug #8313: Make sure the services we disable at boot time indeed don't start on Jessie)

#5 Updated by anonym 2014-12-18 12:17:09

  • related to Feature #8314: Jessie: integrate shutdown-helper extension with our translation system added

#6 Updated by anonym 2014-12-18 12:18:06

  • related to deleted (Feature #8314: Jessie: integrate shutdown-helper extension with our translation system)

#7 Updated by anonym 2014-12-18 12:18:11

  • blocks Feature #8314: Jessie: integrate shutdown-helper extension with our translation system added

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-08 21:20:33

  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)

I’m personally dropping the ball on it for the time being. I don’t know this area well enough, and it’s getting a bit late for fixing stuff in Jessie, especially stuff that should probably be fixed upstream first.

IMO, next step is to read GNOME documentation about accessibility, to learn how people who need a screen reader are supposed to use GNOME these days. Then we can judge whether that’s good enough. (I would prefer being able to directly ask people to try and report back, but given our Greeter is not accessible, it would be a bit lame to throw them onto a known stumbling block).

#9 Updated by sajolida 2015-03-14 14:33:07

According to https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-March/008326.html, Orca works fine in Tails Jessie except for the usual suspects: Tails Greeter and apps that are running from a different UID (Tor Launcher for example).

#10 Updated by goupille 2015-08-22 11:04:42

a user recently pointed out that not being able to set up Tails with orca in the greeter is a really bad thing.

#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-25 00:27:47

> a user recently pointed out that not being able to set up Tails with orca in the greeter is a really bad thing.

Sure. This is off-topic here, though, and we have a dedicated ticket about accessibility in the Greeter. My understanding is that making it accessible is one of the objectives of the greeter revamp project.

#12 Updated by anonym 2015-09-08 12:20:55

  • blocked by deleted (Feature #8314: Jessie: integrate shutdown-helper extension with our translation system)

#13 Updated by anonym 2015-09-08 15:55:40

  • blocked by Bug #10173: Make shutdown-helper in Jessie compatible with Orca added

#15 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-09 03:37:02

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • Assignee set to intrigeri
  • % Done changed from 0 to 10
  • Type of work changed from Debian to Test

It’s too late to fix such stuff in Jessie so repurposing this ticket to be about “what we can do for Tails 2.0”.

On Bug #8302 we discovered that the situation isn’t as bad as we initially thought, thanks to keyboard navigation. With this new info in mind I’m going to evaluate what kind of regressions we have compared to Tails/Wheezy (if any).

#16 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-09 03:52:23

intrigeri wrote:
> With this new info in mind I’m going to evaluate what kind of regressions we have compared to Tails/Wheezy (if any).

I could not find any substantial regressions. Also, one can now start the screen reader (orca) with the well-known “Alt + Super + S” keyboard shortcut, which wasn’t the case on Tails/Wheezy.

So I’m calling this done.

#17 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-09 03:52:35

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)
  • % Done changed from 10 to 100

#18 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-10 12:03:56

  • Deliverable for set to 269

#19 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-10 12:04:06

  • blocks #8668 added