Comment 7 for bug 197887

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote :

Ok, tested today with code to ensure pulseaudio doesn't run, and Orca loads, and accepts keyboard commands like it should, however it still doesn't speak. I've managed to narrow it down to the ubiquity-dm session not having knowledge of the ubuntu user being in the audio group, so when orca gets run, it cannot access the audio device.

So unless there is a way we can refresh the session in terms of groups and accessing devices belonging to the audio group, we may yet have to run all of the a11y infrastructure as root.