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

2020-11-03 Thread Telesto
Not knowing anything about accessibility [so no clue if it's relevant], but these tickets a recently added to they bug tracker https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137954 Include odt2braille as a feature in LibreOffice https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137953

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

2020-11-03 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
These reports are not related to the accessibility of the user interface. Please use this query to keep track of a11y reports: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility%2C%20_type=allwords_id=1223558_format=advanced=--- Ilmari Telesto kirjoitti 3.11.2020 klo 17.35:

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

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Quentin, On 29/10/2020 00:00, Quentin Christensen wrote: > I must admit I will have to go back and have a look at the current state > of issues with LibreOffice 7 and NVDA 2020.3. If you can come up with a list of prioritized / bucketed a11y issues - we can try to estimate what it

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

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

2020-10-27 Thread Quentin Christensen
Florian, Was there any discussion about accessibility and if so, did anything come out of it? Quentin. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:45 PM Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > The Document Foundation > Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23 > Meeting Minutes > > Date:

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

2020-10-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23 Meeting Minutes Date: 2020-10-23 Location: Jitsi Session chair: Lothar Becker Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht In the meeting: Board - Lothar Becker, Daniel Rodriguez, Emiliano Vavassori, Cor Nouws, Michael Meeks, Thorsten