https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136646
--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Marc Pare from comment #1) > I support the suggestion of adding the Luciole font along with the > LibreOffice package. > > While it may seem that this font would be for use of only a small > proportion of users, on the contrary, adding the font would benefit Benefit to what extent? Especially considering how it's not the default in any templates, and users will likely not even notice it exists unless they know what to look for. > more than one would suspect such as: > > * for visually impaired people How? > * for jurisdictions where installation of software on any publicly > funded systems must show options for accessibility adaptations > * for jurisdictions where installation of software on any privately > funded systems must follow accessibility legislation or corporate > requirements where software must show options for accessibility adaptations I don't think that even exists. It's not the _apps_ that need to show such options, it's the _system_. So, those _systems_ may (or may not) need to have accessibility-optimized fonts installed. > On these two last points, more and more, various jurisdictions are > requiring that software also cover accessibility options in software > used in government agencies. Again, I very much doubt this. _Systems_, maybe. Not individual applications or utilities. > Adding such fonts would show the > LibreOffice's resolve being serious contenders in the choice of office > suite for government agencies. Don't you mean changing LibreOffice' default typeface? How does it help that there's one of a hundred fonts in a list that has some accessibility benefits? Which the user doesn't even know about? > The same can also be said for any > corporate entity where they may have any specific requirements where any > installed software have accessibility adaptation available to corporate > users. Name a few jurisdictions and corporate entitie which proscribe an office suite from being installed on a computer system which already has Luciole installed, because the office suite itself doesn't bundle Luciole (or a similar "better-accessibility" typeface). > I would hope that for the sake of all other non-European languages, that > similar projects involving specifically created open sourced fonts > (Arabic, Chinese, etc.) similar to the Luciole font project would also > follow. Perhaps at that point, the LibreOffice project could then offer > a separate font package aimed to accessibility needs. What accessibility problems are there with the various scripts LibreOffice bundles right now? And with Liberation Sans, for that matter? > But for now, adding the Luciole font, it surely would not add that much > to the size of the LibreOffice package? if we multiple it by all other scripts for which we bundle fonts, then it kind of would. Bottom line: I have not really heard the arguments one would expect to be made in favor of such bundling. So, marking as NEEDINFO. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
