Author: Cory Samaha Date: To: intrigeri CC: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Persistent storage creation accessibility issues
with Orca
Hi There,
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. I assume without being able to access the persistent storage features, there is no other way to store PGP keys - perhaps the most important thing I was hoping to do. I mean, changing personalized settings from their defaults is a miner inconvenience, but I was hoping to at least be able to store keys. If not I will just have to wait until next year *sigh*. Thanks again.
Cory
> On May 2, 2019, at 12:11 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>
> Hi Cory,
>
> sorry for the delay…
>
> Cory Samaha:
>> I emailed the Orca screen reader list today with a query regarding
>> the accessibility of the persistent storage volume creation tool.
>> While I do see a bug that seems somewhat related on Redmine Bug
>> #7503, it seems that this only refers to error messages.
>> In contrast, I couldn’t get any portion of this tool to read with
>> Orca, never mind the error messages.
>
> Thanks for your report. I've updated our #7503 ticket so it now
> reflects better the status quo. It's not easy to solve but we plan to
> fix this next year, as part of porting Tails to Wayland.
>
>> Also, while we are on the subject of Tails accessibility with Orca,
>> I tried to use the auto update tool (I believe called senity) to
>> update from 3.12 to 3.12.1. Unfortunately, this tool does not seem
>> to read either.
>
> Thanks again. I've reported this as #16685, which we'll fix at the
> same time as the other problem.
>
>> When trying to subvert the GUI and run
>> tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper from terminal, I did get
>> a notification that an update was available, immediately followed
>> by the text **WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus.
>> While it seemed that I could type “Upgrade now" or “Upgrade later”,
>> it dumped me back into the graphical interface which, again, does
>> not read with Orca.
>
> Indeed, there's no way to interact with the Upgrader in a terminal :(
>
>> I’m just trying to figure out if this is an issue with Orca or the
>> way Tails is developed
>
> It's due to poor design decisions I made while developing some parts
> of Tails years ago.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri
