[libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer's read-only mode and screen readers

2023-10-27 Thread Jason J.G. White
Using LibreOffice Writer with Orca under Linux, I recently found that I couldn't navigate a read-only document with the usual cursor movement keys. Thus, I couldn't read it without using Ctrl-Shift-M to exit read-only mode. The scenario was straightforward: I opened an e-mail attachment, and

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] Inserting comments with a screen reader.

2024-02-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/2/24 09:22, V Stuart Foote wrote: The + 4 to land directly on the Navigator deck followed by and Cursor down movements down to the Comments nodes does expose the content of each of the comments. Additionally when focused on a comment in Windows the + will expose the context menu

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 21/2/24 12:58, Jason J.G. White wrote: 2. Also in Writer, Shift-Pgdn is supposed to move into the footnote area, but doesn't achieve anything. With apologies, that should be Ctrl-Shift-Pgdn, which is listed in the documentation but isn't working for me. -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
Thank you for all of the ongoing work on LibreOffice accessibility. I noticed a few issues that may be Orca or LibreOffice-related - I don't know which is responsible. Orca is undergoing extensive development at the moment, which I'm testing by running the latest code from the main branch.

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Saving to any particular location and grammar checker addon

2023-12-14 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 14/12/23 12:59, FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim wrote: No, it is not happening on windows. I can write the name of the file. However, I cannot change the location or directory. As far as I know, these dialogues are usually supplied by the operating system rather than the application, so I don't know

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Saving to any particular location and grammar checker addon

2023-12-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/12/23 13:47, FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim wrote: I am using windows 10 22h2, nvda 2023.3 and libreoffice 7.5. If I want to save a word file to any particular directory, I cannot do it. I am using Linux, not Windows, but if I type Ctrl-S to save a file, I am presented with a dialogue that lets

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-23 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 10:11, Michael Weghorn wrote: 1) When the Navigator is undocked, i.e. in a separate window, F5 brings focus to it and the focus announcement works as expected. I was able to achieve this result by deleting my LibreOffice configuration (rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice). 2) When its

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-23 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 11:25, Jason J.G. White wrote: Yes, I'll submit a bug report. There's no screen reader output or any other indication after issuing Ctrl-Shift-Pgdn. I've created https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159863 The bug describes the accessibility-related use cases

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-26 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 10:19, Michael Weghorn wrote: By the way, do you know whether the issues you report are regressions, i.e. whether they were working correctly earlier? And if so: Do you know with what versions of LibreOffice and/or Orca? The source of the footnote keyboard accessibility issue has

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

2024-03-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 4/3/24 12:58, David Goldfield wrote: In previous versions pressing the alt key by itself moved focus to the menu bar. While I can still press key combinations such as alt-f to open the File menu pressing just the alt key does nothing. Pressing f10 moves focus to the menu bar but pressing alt

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Write documents read only.

2024-04-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/4/24 07:04, Michael Weghorn wrote: Do you mean that navigation using the text cursor/caret isn't possible? If so, please see this reply from an earlier question asked here which describes how to enable it: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01076.html Thank you

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Shortcuts on a document opened in Writer.

2024-05-09 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 9/5/24 15:17, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: Hi. With NVDA, How can I use the key shortcuts to move along a writer document? Commands like H to jump over headers? I don't know whether this is supported - it isn't in Linux, which is the environment with which I'm familiar, due to LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] New user

2024-05-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 3/5/24 18:46, Keith Reedy wrote: I am a new user of writer the latest version. I am looking for anything that mite get me up to speed. There's plenty of documentation on the Web at https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/ A quick Web search will locate lists of

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-accessibility] Shortcuts on a document opened in Writer.

2024-05-13 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 13/5/24 03:43, Vivien Palcic wrote: I have the Navigator turned on, but this isn't helpful when trying to navigate within a table - eg between columns or rows etc. It just gets me into the table and NVDA reads off the whole lot, whereas I'm trying to get around within the table without