Hello,
No apology needed Stuart. You have done more than most and i would like
to take this opportunity to thank you on list.
I new the lo was not write but I now am pleased that someone from lo is
now agreeing with me. anyway moving on I will take a look at the link to
vote on the ticket to get accessibleIa2 added into the code for lo, let
me once again thank you for all your effort and hard work on this. OK we
don't have the result we would like but now we know we can maybe try and
get a fix for it.
On 15/10/2012 01:10, V Stuart Foote wrote:
LibreOffice versions 3.6.0 and later have not correctly implemented the Java
Access Bridge (JAB) modules used to expose the Java Accessibility API roles for
Windows users.
It took me a little while to work out the testing methods, but the Oracle test
utilities JavaFerret-32 and JavaMonkey-32 show that LibreOffice is not
implementing the Java Accessibility API and therefore does not expose
accessibility roles to Assistive Technologies.
Neither JAB v.2.0.2 or v 2.0.3, nor current JRE version 1.6u35 or 1.7u7 will
make a difference.
I tested LibreOffice builds 3.6.0.4, 3.6.1.2, 3.6.2.2, and 3.6.3.1 none of
which are functional.
In addition today I completed testing of ALL builds of LibreOffice from 3.4.5
to 3.5.7rc2. With exception of the 3.5.0 build they all correctly map Java
Accessibility API roles to UNO Accessibility roles.
The Java Accessibility API is not as comprehensive as the IAccessible2 role
mappings provided by IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1, but it is functional for the 3.4
and 3.5 releases of LibreOffice. And, for these versions Windows Assistive
Technologies will work. For example, the Windows NVDA screen reader will
function with cursor control and component announcements for the entire
document tree.
Windows versions of LibreOffice 3.6, including the current build 3.6.3 rc1, are
NOT USEABLE with Assistive Technologies and they have not been usable with
Windows Assistive Technologies at any point.
For folks that I've mislead with my insistence that all is well with
LibreOffice 3.6 and Java Access Bridge and JRE with use of Assistive
Technologies like NVDA screen reader I was wrong--I apologize.
I've updated the FDO#53474 (http: bug report
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53474 ) and would encourage folks
to vote, i.e. comment on, the enhancement to implement IAccessible2 API (
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement ) for Windows builds by
incorporating the IBM contributed Symphony code base as a replacement of the
Java Accessibility API as that is probably the fastest means of bringing
Windows builds of LibreOffice to the same functional level as Linux builds that
use the ATK AT-SPI accessibility APIs.
Stuart
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