GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735700
Automatically start the screen reader when opening the accessibility panel
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:10:22 UTC
Windows starts the screen reader automatically when opening the accessibility panel in their "control panel". We should do it too. This will allow us to remove the Orca desktop launcher easily, because people searching for "Screen Reader" (or "orca", after we add that keyword) would be presented with the universal access panel and an easy way to enable the screen reader. This is related to bug #735671
By expanding this philosophy should large font and / or zoom also be started when this is activated? Screen reader users will not be able to navigate to this pannel without screen reader active so the most natural way for screen reader users to activate screen reader is by using its toggle shortcut key. By default this is alt+super+s . On windows there is a single shortcut to start the settings along with the screen reader why it's is most likelly coupled there.
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