Re: [tdf-discuss] Accessibility: What's the story?

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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