Hi :) Would it be possible for someone to copy the code en-masse to make sure we get it all. Then we can pick through what bits we can't keep later? Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> >To: 'Simon Eigeldinger' <[email protected]>; >[email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 18:46 >Subject: RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] where's the accessibility? > >Some Symphony code has been donated to Apache OpenOffice, including the >IAccessibility2 support. The IP in the code needs to be cleaned up; the >current approach is to clean the license as it is integrated into AOO. One of >the Symphony-experienced developers just set up a branch to do the >IAccessibility2 integration, which would then be available under Apache ALv2 >license. > >It is difficult to know how this work will advance to readiness for >integration into a release, although it might be available for cherry-picking >into LibreOffice before that. > >For anyone wanting to follow-along at home, the code branch is in the AOO SVN >at ><https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches/ia2/>. I haven't paid >attention enough to know if any check-ins have happened yet. > >- Dennis > >-----Original Message----- >From: Simon Eigeldinger [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:06 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] where's the accessibility? > >hi, > >i just had time to check it out a little bit better. > >here are some examples: > >Using NVDA daily build Main 5723, java 7 update 9 with accessibility bridge: > >Writer: >Start writer and then open the export as pdf dialog. you might be >figuring out that you can't navigate the dialog with the tab key. or >actually you can but the accessibility bridge seems not to know what to >do with that dialog at all. >also when you wrote something and you exit you can't read the dialog >where it asks you if it should save the changes to the document. > >calc: >start calc then enter some numbers for example in a1 you type 422 then >you down arrow to go to the next cell and enter 319 in a2. then you >arrow back up again to a1 and you might figure out that the screenreader >kind of gets interupted by saying something of toolbar and other stuff. > > >there are also more things like it seems that the options dialog seems >not to be accessible sometimes. > >i read somewhere that IBM symphony has been discontinued and IBM might >donate some code to LibreOffice. >Let's hope they also donate the accessibility code as well cause i heard >it works nicely with windows screenreaders. > >greetings, >simon > > > > >Am 11.12.2012 20:07, schrieb V Stuart Foote: >> Simon, >> >> Good that you now have working Accessibility with LibreOffice Assistive >> Technology tools. But as you've now experienced for Windows users there are >> warts between what is implemented in the UNO Accessibility API (UAA) and >> what is passed to Java Accessibility API (JAA) via the Java Access Bridge. >> >> Try to identify specifics of what you believe is not working. Also, work >> against an example document that you can share with developers and QA >> volunteers. Be specific as it would need to be reproducible and we'll need >> to be able to isolate the accessibility component that is involved. In a >> sense build a test case, one that could be tested on Windows as well as on >> Linux and OSX. >> >> Stuart >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-accessibility-where-s-the-accessibility-tp4023600p4023806.html >> Sent from the Accessibility mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >-- >Simon Eigeldinger >Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/domasofan/ >E-Mail: [email protected] >MSN: [email protected] >ICQ: 121823966 >Jabber: [email protected] > >-- >Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > >-- >Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
