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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0006304 | Kali Linux | General Bug | public | 2020-04-18 13:18 | 2021-09-14 20:15 |
Reporter | zersiax | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | suspended | ||
Summary | 0006304: Accessibility features appear to have seriously regressed since XFCE adoption | ||||
Description | Please note that testing has, as of now, only been performed on a virtual machine, this due to the severity of the issues discovered. I last assessed Kali's accessibility about 1.5 years ago, and was delighted to see that the normal interaction patterns can be used to activate Orca for blind computer users. This usually involves hitting ctrl+super+s on the login screen. Unfortunately, that seems to have disappeared completely in the version I tried today, which is, I believe, based off of 2019.4 and likely still present in 2020.1. My Findings:
I hope I don't need to explain just how much of a dealbreaker this is. Kali can easily be called the De Facto standard for pentesting distros and any tutorial, course or training will expect you to at least be able to start it up and log in. As it stands, Kali seems to be unable to be used by security enthusiasts and would-be pentesters, analiysts etc. if they require a screen reader, such as myself. | ||||
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Bump. I dare offer that this issue only applies when XFCE is selected for the desktop environment. I am currently uncertain if:
Given almost the entire installation procedure happens before actually picking a desktop environment, one has to wonder how this issue can best be mittigated. |
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Re: (...) " I have not tested this on a Raspberry pi yet but expect to find a similar situation there. " (...) Indeed. You will have to install it from the apt repos. ( Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 VERSION_ID="2020.3" "kali-rolling") ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~] Hope this help. |
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espeakup package issues ? |
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This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2020-04-18 13:18 | zersiax | New Issue | |
2020-04-28 10:32 | zersiax | Note Added: 0012687 | |
2020-08-23 01:44 | sec4lib | Note Added: 0013311 | |
2020-08-23 02:13 | sec4lib | Note Added: 0013312 | |
2020-12-01 10:48 | g0tmi1k | Priority | high => normal |
2020-12-01 10:50 | g0tmi1k | Severity | block => minor |
2021-09-14 20:15 | g0tmi1k | Status | new => closed |
2021-09-14 20:15 | g0tmi1k | Resolution | open => suspended |
2021-09-14 20:15 | g0tmi1k | Note Added: 0015164 |