Hi, I would like to introduce myself: I have been a research in accessibility since 2001 and I have been involved in the development of three extensions for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, i.e. odt2daisy (which converts ODT to digital talking books), odt2braille (which converts ODT to Braille or embosses ODT docs) and AccessODF (an accessibility checker for ODT). Since the goal of these three extensions is to create more accessible content for people with disabilities, and since these people should also be able to use these tools, I take a great interest in the accessibility of OOo itself. The Java Accessibility API, which OOo uses to expose accessibility metadata on Windows, is not very well supported by screen readers on Windows, so I am very interested in helping to test the IAccessible2 implementation as it comes along. I have added myself to the QA Testing Preferences page at <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/QA+Testing+Preferences>.
Best regards, Christophe Strobbe (I have been using OpenOffice.org since 2003 or 2004 - mostly Writer, Calc and Impress.) -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749
