Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Quentin Christensen
Hi everyone, Thank you very much for all the constructive comments. Firstly, I should apologise if I came across as being attacking yesterday. It's really just frustration that previously it's been very hard to get to talk to anyone about accessibility issues in LibreOffice. I must admit I

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Telesto
Op 28-10-2020 om 08:29 schreef Quentin Christensen: Thanks Florian, Given the increasing use of open source software such as Libre Office in government and corporate use, it is disappointing it isn't more of a priority. Not being accessible does explicitly exclude LIbre Office from most

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Quentin, Over the last 20 years I have spent quite a bit of energy on the matter of accessibility in openoffice.org so let's consider your request in that light. *Background* Accessibility is undeniably important, and LibreOffice already includes the results of large amounts of work by a

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Heiko Tietze
On 28.10.20 08:29, Quentin Christensen wrote: > Not being accessible does explicitly exclude LIbre Office... Accessibility is and was always in our focus [1,2]. For example, TDF tendered the accessibility checker [3], and every build tests now changes to the UI against a11y basics [4]. What

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Quentin, Quentin Christensen wrote: Given the increasing use of open source software such as Libre Office in government and corporate use, it is disappointing it isn't more of a priority.  Not being accessible does explicitly exclude LIbre Office at the moment, the board is evaluating

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Quentin, Quentin Christensen wrote: Was there any discussion about accessibility and if so, did anything come out of it? there was no separate discussion about accessibility. It is one of the topics the board has in their ranking, to determine the importance/priority of the topic - but