Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-25 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 13/10/23 03:27, Michael Weghorn wrote: On 2023-10-12 20:27, Jason White wrote: On an unrelated issue, the accessibility of comments in LibreOffice Writer was recently raised on the Orca mailing list. Change tracking (reporting of insertions and deletions) is an associated feature that

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-24 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 2023-10-24 19:36, Dave Grossoehme wrote: How does the spell checker work with Narrator? In a quick test of mine, Narrator did not announce anything in LibreOffice, except for the title of windows. I don't know much about Narrator, but it might be that it only supports UIA (User

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-24 Thread Dave Grossoehme
How does the spell checker work with Narrator? Dave On 10/23/2023 2:51 AM, Michael Weghorn wrote: Hi, On 2023-10-12 14:02, Michael Weghorn wrote: I think the best way forward is to switch to adhere to the IAccessible2 specification and report the "invalid:spelling" attribute for spelling

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-23 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 2023-10-23 08:51, Michael Weghorn wrote: If you rely on the feature of announcing formatting information, I'd recommend to update NDVA to 2024.1 next year before updating to LibreOffice 2024.2. (Announcement for text formatting will not work with NVDA 2023.x and LibreOffice 2024.2 and

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-23 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi, On 2023-10-12 14:02, Michael Weghorn wrote: I think the best way forward is to switch to adhere to the IAccessible2 specification and report the "invalid:spelling" attribute for spelling errors. That also needs a modification in NVDA to longer expect the custom attributes. Once that's

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-13 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 2023-10-12 20:27, Jason White wrote: I just confirmed that spelling errors are being reported by Orca under Linux as expected. Thanks! That matches what I see with Orca and the gtk3 VCL plugin (interface variant) on Linux. (The Qt-based VCL plugins don't expose that information yet. I

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-12 Thread Jason White
I just confirmed that spelling errors are being reported by Orca under Linux as expected. On an unrelated issue, the accessibility of comments in LibreOffice Writer was recently raised on the Orca mailing list. Change tracking (reporting of insertions and deletions) is an associated feature

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi, On 2023-10-07 23:25, Michael Weghorn wrote: That sounds plausible. As mentioned in my previous email, I'm planning to take a closer look at this. Since it works with other applications (like Word or Thunderbird) and NVDA is free and open source, too, I'm optimistic that it'll be possible

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Jean-Phillipe and Joanmarie, On 2023-10-08 00:07, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Yes, COlomban is working for this. I gave him my nputs, he now tries to give a better technical base and reproduction scenarios. (...) Great, knowing the exact steps to reproduce will be very helpful. Or would

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-07 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Le 07/10/2023 à 23:25, Michael Weghorn a écrit : Hi Jean-Philippe, On 2023-10-07 06:19, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Nice to start chatting with you, I heard of you at Libocon via COlomban you met there and worling with my organization. I am glad if I can help you working on LO

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Jean-Philippe, On 2023-10-07 06:19, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Nice to start chatting with you, I heard of you at Libocon via COlomban you met there and worling with my organization. I am glad if I can help you working on LO accessibility given the high needed job. For your info, as a

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-07 Thread FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim
> > > Update both libre office and nvda. Nowadays, nvda announces the number of > word after pressing nvda key + eng. You no longer need to read the whole > document to know the number of word. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-06 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi Michael, Nice to start chatting with you, I heard of you at Libocon via COlomban you met there and worling with my organization. I am glad if I can help you working on LO accessibility given the high needed job. For your info, as a "power user"/tester, I mainly use Linux and I use

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Daniel and Jason, thanks a lot for your email mentioning these points and the further input! Some notes/questions on the individual points follow below. On 2023-10-05 00:01, Jason White wrote: On 4/10/23 17:22, Daniel McGrath wrote: Firstly, when bringing up a word count, it's very

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

2023-10-04 Thread Jason White
On 4/10/23 17:22, Daniel McGrath wrote: Firstly, when bringing up a word count, it's very difficult to see... for the screen reader to read the word count. Most of the window seems taken up with a needlessly (to me) long explanation of what word count does. The only way I've found of hearing