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Add an option to automatically configure Orca screen reader to start with lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter #2182

Open slannon97 opened 8 months ago

slannon97 commented 8 months ago

In order to get the Orca screen reader to start and read the login window for lightdm when installing the Mate desktop, it is necessary to manually modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

[greeter] reader = orca --replace a11y-states = +reader

Please add an option in the archinstall script that will automatically do this. This means a blind user would only need to select this option and make sure Orca was installed by typing it into the additional packages to install prompt. This would save a little time as the installation and necessary configuration would be completely automated after the appropriate parameters are specified.

Torxed commented 8 months ago

We automatically enable these things if we detect that the ISO has for instance espeakup enabled. Perhaps we can do the same for mate desktop?