Hello. As of yesterday JAWS 2023 is now reading text in the manner expected when navigating a Writer document using arrow key navigation. From the changelog: Resolved an issue with JAWS not reading text entered into a document in LibreOffice Writer. https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/Fusion/FusionWhatsNew#enhancements
David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist NVDA Certified Expert Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: tech-vi+subscr...@groups.io www.DavidGoldfield.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Weghorn <m.wegh...@posteo.de> Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2023 7:18 AM To: David Goldfield <dgoldfield1...@gmail.com>; accessibility@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility Regressions Observed With Writer 7.5.1 and JAWS 2023 On 2023-05-07 05:23, David Goldfield wrote: > Michael Weghorn wrote: >> (I'd suggest to either query for the toolkit name, which is "VCL" or >> support not just "LibreOffice" as app name, but also >> "LibreOfficeDev", which is the > name that the development version uses, and app names for > vendor-specific LibreOffice derivatives.) Can you please report that to > JAWS/Freedom Scientific (and keep this mailing list up to date on the > outcome)? > > Done. It took me a while to do this for reasons not relevant to this list. I > received a very prompt response from FS which said: > > "This is Nicki. this has actually been reported to our development > department, so hopefully, it will be fixed soon." Great, thanks! Michael -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
