Re: [CODE] old business...patches
On 3/12/2014 21:11, Kay Schenk wrote: The following query lists issues of type = PATCH https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamedlist_id=162879namedcmd=PATCHES After logging in and hitting the URL, Bugzilla tells me, The search named PATCHES does not exist. Best regards, Christophe You will need to be a registered Bugzilla user to view it. It would be helpful for QA and dev team members to determine if the submitted patches are still relevant. Bulk notification may not have reached patch contributors. -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Responsive Media Experience Research Group (REMEX) Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 La vie est courte, hélas! et je n'ai pas encore lu tous mes livres! (d'après Mallarmé). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: instruction book?
Hi Melanie, On 24/06/2014 3:18, Melanie Lightfoot wrote: I have downloaded open office apache about a year ago. Use it almost everyday. Thank you. What I need to know is: is there an instruction book for Apache Open Office that I can buy, and what is the cost? The OpenOffice project maintains a list of OpenOffice books at http://www.openoffice.org/support/books.html. Most of these books date from 2012 (OpenOffice 3.4), i.e. before the introduction of the sidebar. I must confess I haven't read any of them, since I've been using OpenOffice for almost ten years now. (There are also some other electronic resources, like these for students at http://openoffice-uni.org/.) I hate looking at the on screen instructions. They are confusing to me. I'm used to looking at a book. You are probably not the only person who finds the online documentation confusing, but most people probably don't tell us about this. If you could say a few things about what makes the documentation confusing and how we might improve it, that could be very helpful. Best regards, Christophe Thank you for your time -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 La vie est courte, hélas! et je n'ai pas encore lu tous mes livres! (d'après Mallarmé). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Windows XP and AT (Re: AOO 4.1 Full Regression Test Starts! Call for volunteers!)
Hi Edwin, On 24/03/2014 13:27, Edwin Sharp wrote: I personally can not understand people using such ancient operating system from a greedy corporation not respecting user privacy. I know people who need assistive technology who still rely on Windows XP. Every new version of an application may break compatibility with or support by the AT they are using, and upgrading the assistive technology can be very expensive, so they stick with a working set up as long as possible. (Open source alternatives are often used to access specific applications, e.g. NVDA for using OpenOffice and JAWS for accessing MS Word.) Best regards, Christophe Strobbe On Mon, Mar 24, 2014, at 14:16, Pedro Lino wrote: Hi all I'm curious: does this mean Apache OpenOffice is dropping support for Windows XP? My PC runs Windows XP and I know it will not be updated in the near future (with the current economic situation this is simply NOT a priority) This is possibly the case for many PCs since XP is running on nearly 30% of all PCs worlwide according to netmarketshare ( http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10qpcustomb=qpcustomd=0 ) Is there an official position on support for Windows XP? Regards, Pedro -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 La vie est courte, hélas! et je n'ai pas encore lu tous mes livres! (d'après Mallarmé). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
RE: Web accessibility guidelines -- which ones?
Hi, I agree that WCAG 2.0 is the way to go; the current Section 508 is still based on a pre-final version of WCAG 1.0 and will hopefully get updated by the end of the year. I wouldn't aim higher than WCAG 2.0 AA; even WCAG 2.0 A may be a challenge at the start. With regard to tools, I currently don't know what to recommend because I haven't evaluated any such tools recently. WebAIM's WAVE http://wave.webaim.org/ (and the Firefox toolbar http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/) and the IDRC's AChecker http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php were developed by competent teams. I don't know who's behind Total Validator (meaning: I don't know the developers). Best regards, Christophe Am Fr, 10.01.2014, 04:35 schrieb V Stuart Foote: Rob, *, ... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of authorities for accessibility standards. It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web content, and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). National and International Standards bodies are basing conformance against this standard. WCAG 2.0 A, AA, AAA ( also published as ISO/IEC 40500:2012 ) are functional levels of conformance with accessibility standards. http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag The reworked AOO Website should probably meet majority of WCAG v2.0 AA level requirements. And Apache OpenOffice as a document preparation and review program should also strive to meet WCAG level A AA conformance criteria for ICT (http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/ ). Fortunately much of that is accomplished for the website with valid HTML 5.0 and WAI-ARIA markup. While the introduction of IAccessible2 to supplement MSAA, and improvements in ATK and NSAccessibility move the office suite proper into a better compliance with some notable shortcommings. In the United States, the existing Accessibility Board US Section 508 requirements were loosely equivalent to WCAG v1, and are being rewritten to match functional levels of WCAG 2.0 A AA. The draft proposal for U.S. conformance can be found here: http://www.access-board.gov/attachments/article/490/draft-rule.pdf Also, relevant parts of the European Union EN 301 549 ( http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/01.00.00_20/en_301549v01c.pdf ) as work of the European Commision (EC) Mandate M 376 ( http://www.mandate376.eu/ ) are also based on WCAG v2.0 level A and AA. So running conformance validators for WCAG 2.0 A, AA, AAA is probably the correct choice in reworking the web site. Stuart -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Issue with defining default format
Am Di, 6.08.2013, 02:18 schrieb Gerd Muncke: The list of available formats to store documents in Preferences does not contain as many options as the po-up list under Save As. Using OpenOffice 4.0 (English UI), I find the following formats listed under Tools Options Load/Save General (this is the list from the menu Always save as when Document type is set to Text document): * DocBook * HTML Document (OpenOffice Writer) * Microsoft Word 2003 XML * Microsoft Word 6.0 * Microsoft Word 95 * Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP * ODF Text Document * OpenOffice.org XML 1.0 Text Document * OpenOffice.org XML 1.0 Text Document Template * Rich Text Format * Text * Text Encoded * Unified Office Format text * Unified Office Format 2 Text The Save as... dialog contains the same list of formats (though in a different order and with file extensions added), with the addition of ODF Text Document Template (.ott) (*.ott). Are the lists in your version of OpenOffice different than in my version? Best regards, Christophe PS: I did not encounter the writer8 string that Andrea Pescetti reported in the above lists. -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
police / typeface vs font - Re: QA REPORT
Am Mo, 18.03.2013, 15:21 schrieb Regina Henschel: Daniel Alvaro schrieb: Hello, I was checking the bug 121854, https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121854: but I don't understand the word POLICE , do you know what is the meaning of this word or where can I find it? I'm using Win 7 The reporter has a French mailing address. So perhaps it is police de caractères. That would be font. Strictly speaking, police means typeface, while fonte means font. E.g. Helvetica is a typeface, while Helvetica 10 pt bold is a font. Best regards, Christophe You can ask him to attach a screen shot of the dialog and mark, which field does not work for him. Kind regards Regina - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: New QA volunteer - to test IAccessible2
Hi Rob, Thanks. I'm already on the API list and wondering what API changes will affect the extensions and how ;-) Christophe Am Di, 5.02.2013, 17:40 schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Christophe Strobbe stro...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: 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 Hello Christophe, welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project. I have been aware of your extensions and admired your work for several years. It is great to have your help and your expertise as we enhance the accessibility of OpenOffice. Since you are also an extension author, you should know that we have another mailing list, a...@openoffice.apache.org, special for extension authors. It is a good list to follow to keep informed about API changes, etc. Regards, -Rob 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 -- Christophe Strobbe Akademischer Mitarbeiter Adaptive User Interfaces Research Group Hochschule der Medien Nobelstraße 10 70569 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 8923 2749
