Hi,
These are important questions that I also wanted to ask, especially
in the light of IBM's contribution of an IAccessible2 implementation
to OpenOffice.org, which would significantly improve accessibility on
Windows. After describing what I know about OOo accessibility on
Windows on the LibO accessibility mailing list [1], one of the
questions that I am interested in is whether that IAccessible2
implementation would also become available in LibreOffice or whether
it would have to be redeveloped from scratch for LibreOffice (due to
copyright / IP reasons, because I can't think of anything else).
[1] <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/accessibility/msg00034.html>
Best regards,
Christophe
At 21:55 15/02/2011, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hey all.
A question I've been wondering, and that Orca users are wondering,
and that the GNOME accessibility team is wondering is: What's the
story with LibreOffice accessibility? In particular:
* Is the fork so complete that fixes made in OOo will not even be
seen -- or incorporated into LibreOffice even if they are seen? Or
* Are things from OOo still being cherry picked for inclusion
in LibreOffice -- or would be if they were pointed out via bugzilla?
Also:
* Is there an active a11y team and/or developers focused on a11y
issues in LibreOffice?
And, yeah, I know: It's open source. And getting and building the
code is a zillion times easier than is the case with OOo (for which
I'm truly grateful). So I should just submit patches. :-) Let's
pretend we've already had that discussion with the conclusion being
that I sincerely promise to contribute as soon as I get caught up on
my DayJob, Orca work, GNOME 3 issues, etc., etc. In meantime....
What's the story w.r.t. the questions above?
Oh, and yes, I already inquired on the accessibility list a couple
of months ago. No one there seems to know and the only advice I got
was to file bugs in both issue trackers. Thus if any of y'all can
shed light on the situation it would be super.
Thanks in advance!
--joanie
Orca project lead
GNOME accessibility team
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