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

At 18:59 16/02/2011, drew wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 17:30 +0000,
> Michael Meeks wrote:
> > Hi Joanie,
> > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 16:24 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
> > > > * Is there an active a11y team and/or developers focused on
> > > >   a11y issues in LibreOffice?
> > >
> > > Sure there are people with a focus on this. I am not sure if we
> > > actually can speak of 'a team'.
> >
> >       Quite - whether there is a team at OO.o is a similar 
> question ;-) there
> > are people who can help fix problems. From ORCA's perspective, I created
> > the design, prototype, and ~50% of the existing atk bridge in vcl; so I
> > wouldn't fret that we are skill-less in this area :-)
> >
> >       Furthermore, it is far easier to work on LibreOffice process-wise to
> > get fixes in, so I anticipate (over time) a better accessibility
> > experience; and of course we welcome patches (on the dev list).
> >
>
> Hi, If I may change the subject here for a moment. When lasted I 
> noted any comment on the OO.o lists with regard to the IAccessibilty 
> code coming from IBM, IIRC, the comment was that it was 'not yet 
> integrated' - I don't know if that is still true.

As far as I know, the IAccessible2 code is in the OOo repository but 
not in the main trunk. At FOSDEM (two week ago), Malte Timmermann 
could not give a date when the integration (and testing) would be 
finished: "It will be done when it's done."
(See my summary at 
<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/accessibility/msg00034.html>.)

Best regards,

Christophe

> From LibreOffice stand point, I am not sure I have heard what the 
> plan is, would that integration be merged here? (if the answer is 
> still don't know till we see it - that's a valid answer) I remember 
> watching the session on accessibility at the last OOoConn and I 
> know there was a MS rep there, as I remember you had some small 
> interaction. I'm don't know then if your (the dev teams) thoughts 
> are to look for the integration coming via OO.o/IBM or if you are 
> looking at going a different route. Please don't feel you need to 
> respond directly - if there are some references already (other 
> emails, blogs) it would be great if anyone could point in the 
> direction of those. This next period there are number of shows in 
> the US and the question of accessibility is treated quite directly 
> in this area. I was thinking of trying to create a small reference 
> piece for the booth staff at the shows with some information on 
> this subject (within this next 2 weeks - to make the first show): 
> LIbreOffice support for accessibility technologies (current and 
> future) [or something similar] I'm starting with the assumption 
> that anything relating to OO.o 3.3 would be correct also for Libo 
> 3.3 - correct assumption? Beyond that - I'm not asking for a direct 
> response here to this email, but if that assumption is not correct, 
> or there are actual plans for a different direction for integration 
> it would be much appreciated if anyone could direct some links my 
> way, I will read and assemble a smaller flyer type piece, then ask 
> folks to review it.
> Thanks for your time,
> Drew




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