orca reads the password out loud

Digging into this some, it seems that the widget already has the correct accessible role. The bug is that something in unity greeter is causing the Orca splash screen to not be suppressed. As a result, the splash screen appears, goes away, and nothing in the greeter reclaims focus. So Orca doesn't know it's in the object with ROLE_PASSWORD_TEXT. When I disabled the splash screen, Orca does not echo the keys when the password is typed.

The good news is that it is my understanding that Luke already has a patch proposed to solve the splash-screen suppression bug, so this bug should just go away when that fix is committed.

video of it reading the password out loud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJRwpcJBa8

this appears to be fixed now in the latest updates

Hy Alan,

Unfortunately I doesn't see any change my installed system, I installed
all updates.
When the login screen presenting, Orca only spokening "Welcome to Orca.
Login frame" message. When I typing the default selected user password,
Orca spokening the password characters, not asterisk simbols.
Of course, when I press a TAB and a SHIFT+TAB key combination, or press
a down arrow key, password entry field are Orca detected.
I using unity-greeter 0.2.7-0ubuntu1 packaged version.

My /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file have following contents:
[SeatDefaults]
xserver-layout=hu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=gnome-fallback

Need I changing any setting in Unity Greeter, or my experienced issue is
a different bug with are not resolved yet?

Attila

just done a fresh install of 12.04 daily and booted up and it reads out my password.

tabbing to the sessions option button then back again and it reads out asterisks rather than my password, but just booting from scratch and typing it reads out the letters.

This is happening to me with Quantal Beta 2 image as well (20120916)

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/944159

I've pushed a workaround for this to quantal. It's not ideal, and not something I want to propose for upstreaming yet.

I think the real issue is that orca does not read the currently focused widget on startup. It only reads the current window. So in unity-greeter, it never "notices" that it's in a password prompt without a focus switch to wake it up. This looks like a bug to me, but maybe it's intentional. We have to talk to orca people.

We can poke orca into noticing the prompt. But orca never tells us when it's finished initializing, so we have to guess when to poke it. I've done it two ways: (1) wait a second after starting orca, then poke. Obviously racy. (2) Once the first key press happens after starting orca, poke. This is racy in a different way, in that orca might speak the first character entered before realizing it's in a password prompt. But at least the rest of the characters are hidden. And ideally, the first one-second-poke already solved it for us.

The real fix should be in orca. Either have it claim a bus name or have some way of signaling when it is ready to rock. Or just speak the current focused widget on startup.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 12.10.4-0ubuntu4

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unity-greeter (12.10.4-0ubuntu4) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/close-orca.patch:
    - Make turning off the screen reader work again, now that the --quit
      argument to orca was dropped.
  * debian/patches/do-not-read-password.patch:
    - Workaround an orca problem where it doesn't notice the currently
      focused widget on startup. With this fix, it will no longer read
      your password as you type it. LP: #944159
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:12:31 -0400

Hy Michael,

Possible doing similar fixes with Ubuntu 12.04 awailable Unity-greeter
package? Random time if screen reader support enabled in login screen
Orca exiting, and only two CTRL+S keystroke to possible restart the
screen reader. I not found now what bug report I reported this issue,
but oldest time in Ubuntu Accessibility and Orca list lot of users
confirmed this issue.

In latest Quantal awailable unity-greeter package following patches are
applied, I think this patches not compatible with unity-greeter
0.2.8-0ubuntu1.2 precise-updates repository awailable version:
   * debian/patches/close-orca.patch:
     - Make turning off the screen reader work again, now that the --quit
       argument to orca was dropped.
   * debian/patches/do-not-read-password.patch:
     - Workaround an orca problem where it doesn't notice the currently
       focused widget on startup. With this fix, it will no longer read
       your password as you type it. LP: #944159

Attila

THis work-around could be backported to precise, but I am of the opinion that we should work out a proper fix, which can then be backported, the reason being less SRU testing and verification, and it is a work-around after all.

Please raise this in gnome-orca. This is not orca-reader - sorry! (I'm not sure how I would migrate this bug to that project - let me know if it needs to be done)