lightdm-gtk-greeter now has an official method to start it. I think using this 
in Debian could have some benefits because it would allow blind users to start 
and stop the screen reader regardless of whether it was enabled a install time. 
From what I can tell, the first change that would need to be made is a line 
that says "reader=orca" in 
https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-extras-team/lightdm-gtk-greeter/-/blob/debian/master/debian/01_debian.conf.
 With this change, a user could press (f4) on the log in screen of any debian 
machine to enable Orca. I don't think this is a disruptive change because Orca 
will only be enabled if (f4) is pressed and will default to off on every 
restart if accessible install is not used. The second change would be having 
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/finish-install/-/raw/master/finish-install.d/07speakup
 write a11y-states=+reader in the lightdm-gtk-greeter config file if 
accessibility install was used instead of enabling the wrapper. This would 
always enable Orca on boot with an option to disable it for the current boot 
with (f4). What do the package maintainers and others on the list think about 
this sort of change? Thanks.

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