The sound stack and accessibility screen readers, getting it fixed for real?

Track: Internationalization, Localization and Accessibility

Type: BoF (45 minutes)

Room: BoF room (B03-035)

Time: Jul 15 (Tue): 15:00

Duration: 0:40

A recurring issue with accessibility support on Debian is the concurrent access to the sound stack from multiple screen readers (e.g. espeakup running as root for the Linux console vs Orca running as user in the GUI).

The pulseaudio sound server is said not to really support system-wide server, but the pipewire sound server is said to support it. It thus sounds like an opportunity to eventually fix this concurrent access issue in the Debian distribution.

This BoF is aimed at discussing how to achieve this, and plan actions.

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