Hi,
this should be unrelated to Java. (At some point in the past, there was
a Java Accessibility Bridge that was responsible for making LibreOffice
accessible, but that hasn't been the case for quite a while already. For
the gtk3 variant of LibreOffice, ATK is used by now, and for the qt6/kf6
one, Qt implements the AT-SPI2 logic directly.)
The LibreOffice version you're using is already a bit older. Is updating
to current Debian stable (Trixie) an option to see whether it "just
works" there?
Best regards,
Michael
On 2025-11-14 13:12, Tim Böttcher wrote:
Hi,
I'm on Debian (Bookworm) running on a RaspBerry Pi 5, LibreOffice 7.4.7.2,
BRLTTY 6.8, Orca 48.7, MATE desktop.
When launching any LibreOffice program, such as LibreOffice writer, I can only
see the window titles, but nothing that happens within the program. Keyboard
input is getting passed through to the program correctly, e.g., CTRL+O triggers
the file picker, but said file picker is also inaccessible (i.e., I can only
see the window title).
As per my digging on the internet and conversations with assorted chatbots,
this is supposed to be a Java accessibility thing. However, none of the listed
fixes (notably editing /etc/java-17-openjdk/accessibility.properties) changes
anything. Exporting an environment variable with the relevant settings for
AtkWrapper gets picked up by Java correctly, but also doesn't make a
difference. Interestingly, even with Java completely purged from my system,
LibreOffice Writer still opens, so I suspect it bundles its own JRE and it's
possible that isn't receiving the proper accessibility instructions.
I'd appreciate any suggestions at this point because I'm stumped.
Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Tim Böttcher
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