Hi Michael, Unfortunately, some of these bugs, which we have already talked about in the past, make editing most documents virtually impossible on the Mac when using VoiceOver. Most of the APIs used probably haven’t been touched since the initial implementation 15-20 years ago, and Apple has since advanced its APIs on the Mac, and VoiceOver’s expectations, massively. I know this from the implementation of MacOS accessibility in Firefox <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Mac2020>, which I took part of in 2020 and 2021. To make this work properly, someone knowledgeable on the Mac would really need to get down to business and work on this at least for a few months. Most basic controls work okay’s, but the actual text area of Writer is a total mess. And I haven’t even tried to use Calc or Impress.
Sorry for being so blunt, but sadly, that’s the current affair when it comes to LibreOffice accessibility on the Mac. Unfortunately, due to an ongoing illness, I cannot provide anything other than my experience from the Firefox days, and maybe occasional testing of precompiled builds, if someone dedicates their time to working on this. I am not a coder myself, or at least any more. Marco > Am 17.11.2025 um 10:14 schrieb Michael Weghorn <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > in general, LibreOffice implements accessibility on macOS. > > I'm not actively using macOS myself, so others who do that might be able to > give some more insights on how accessible LibreOffice is there for them in > practice. > > There is a meta bug for macOS-specific accessibility tickets: > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=55571&hide_resolved=1 > > If you run into any other issues, a bug report would be appreciated. > > Michael > > > On 2025-11-15 15:11, Josh Kennedy wrote: >> hi, >> How accessible is libreoffice on the mac these days? I am thinking of >> getting a mac, and I have important encrypted documents that I use in ODT >> format encrypted with the aes-256 encryption. If it is not accessible on >> mac, can you please make it so that it is accessible? including writer, >> calc, charts in calc and so on? I want to be able to put my ODT files on >> the mac and keep working on them and saving them. >> thanks >> Josh Kennedy > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
