Sound is muted by default on the live CD making the screen reader ineffective
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am doing ISO testing of 12.04 amd64 pre-beta 2. I am running test case ID: uai-001 Desktop Accessibility (ubiquity). Here is the link to the test case as required by QA . http://
Stage 2: Wait for the drums.
Stage 3: Press Ctrl+S to start the screen reader.
Sound is muted by default on the live CD. There for there is no drum sound. Pressing Ctrl+S does indeed activate Orca the screen reader but Orca is ineffective because the sound is muted by default. It requires a mouse action to unmute sound. This is not acceptable for an accessibility option.
Sound is still muted at the live Desktop top.
There should be available at the Ubuntu Welcome dialog the ability to set a sound level by using the arrow keys. This would make Ubuntu accessible to visually impaired people as it is intended to be.
In terms of the number of people effected this is a trivial bug because few visually impaired people will be using computers. In terms of Ubuntu failing to be accessible to the many visually impaired people this bug is major.
I cannot send by ISO test results to QA without there being a bug report to link it too. I cannot use apport because this is an issue with an ISO image as a live CD.
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
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