I've done it before. They didn't seem to care. The guy told me LO needed to be written to use UIA. Very depressing. So, I gave up and started using IBM Lotus Symphony on Windows and only use LibreOffice on Linux ever since.
-----Original Message----- From: David Goldfield [mailto:dgoldfield1...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 4:19 PM To: V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu>; accessibility@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Windows LO with JAWS This is distressing. Several years ago, JAWS was working reasonably well with LibreOffice, if my memory is correct, but I have also encountered the same problem with more recent versions. As you say, NVDA offers much better support. While NVDA has been my screen reader of choice for nine years I would encourage users of JAWS to contact VFO at supp...@vfo.com to let them know your feelings regarding the lack of support being offered by JAWS for this excellent suite. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com On 5/4/2018 2:59 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Bryen Yunashko wrote >> ... A couple of months ago, I installed LibreOffice and had great >> difficulty because often when I started up LO, Jaws would stop >> working and then restart itself. >> >> A number of buttons and fields didn't work either. So, I put it aside >> for a while. This week I decided to try again and asked someone to >> update the latest LO as the inplace update button wasn't accessible >> for me. >> >> Now, when I start LO, it does not even speak anything. It is completely >> "hidden." But I know LO is actually running because I will randomly type >> some text, then press Alt+F4 to close the program and I get a prompt >> to save or discard my file. >> >> But while LO is open, nothing works. No menu button, tabs, arrow >> keys, nothing. >> >> Is this a known problem? > Completely normal... > > LibreOffice implements a native Windows accessibility bridge based on > the opensource IAccessible2 API > > Reference: > http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/ > > Unfortunately for JAWS users Freedom Scientific has never seen fit to > implement modular support for IA2, so the short answer is it is known > and JAWS willl not work with LibreOffice. > > You will need to install NVDA as a free and open source Windows backup > to JAWS. The screen reader navigation is a bit different--but fidelity > of IA2 accessible content is much better. LibreOffice accessible > event based support is pretty complete--and its screen review/Graphics > API "screen scraping" rounds things out. > > Available here: > https://www.nvaccess.org/ > > Let us know how you make out. > > > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility-f2006038.html > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
