Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-24 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 22/06/2022 14.44, Jason White wrote: Note also that GTK 4 implements its own accessibility API, which, under Linux, connects directly to the running AT-SPI 2 demon. This approach may be an option in the future when the GTK 4 accessibility support matures. In other words, GTK is migrating

RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-09 Thread Marco Zehe
...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS] On 09.06.22 11:21, Michael Weghorn wrote: > I suppose that supporting new UIA concepts/features in addition would > probably require more fundamental changes than "just&qu

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Marco, all, On 09/06/2022 09.39, Marco Zehe wrote: AFAIK, QT exposes accessibility information to UIA on Windows. They switched over from an MSAA implementation to UIA some time in the QT5 time frame: https://www.qt.io/blog/2018/02/20/qt-5-11-brings-new-accessibility-backend-windows.

RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-09 Thread Marco Zehe
@global.libreoffice.org Cc: libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org; libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS] Hi Marco, On 08/06/2022 13.09, Marco Zehe wrote: > JAWS does support IAccessible2, but o

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Weghorn
ne I think. And getting Vispero on board for JAWS support is an even bigger fish to fry. Marco -Original Message- From: Jason White Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 9:34 PM To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 On

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Marco, On 08/06/2022 13.09, Marco Zehe wrote: JAWS does support IAccessible2, but only if it needs to, like in Firefox, and some parts of Chromium-based browsers. However, with the UI Automation implementation for the latter becoming stronger, there might be a time when JAWS moves to UIA

RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-08 Thread Marco Zehe
...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS] Hi Christophe, On 07/06/2022 12.14, Christophe Strobbe wrote: > After some online searching, it seems that JAWS at least used to support > IAccessible2, originally

RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-08 Thread Marco Zehe
essibility@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 On 7/6/22 06:07, Michael Weghorn wrote: > I tried again with just a single screen instead of two, and then NVDA > announces "Slide 1", then reads out the slide content, and when

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-08 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 07/06/2022 21.34, Jason White wrote: Yes. If I recall correctly, under MS-Windows/PowerPoint, NVDA and JAWS both support arrow key navigation in the slide contents when the slides are being presented (i.e., after F5 is used to start a presentation). Ideally, one should be able to do the

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Christophe, On 07/06/2022 12.14, Christophe Strobbe wrote: After some online searching, it seems that JAWS at least used to support IAccessible2, originally mainly for IBM Lotus Symphony. According to a tweet by Marco Zehe from December last year, JAWS handles Chromium and Edge via

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

2022-06-07 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Michael, All, (Apologies if this message has too many addressees; I'm not sure which ones I should drop.) After some online searching, it seems that JAWS at least used to support IAccessible2, originally mainly for IBM Lotus Symphony. According to a tweet by Marco Zehe from December last

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 07/06/2022 11.54, Michael Weghorn wrote: Could you please explain what the expected (and actual) behavior would be when showing an Impress presentation? I think it makes sense to create a bug report to keep track of this (and I'd be happy to do so, but don't know what to write). (In a

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 31/05/2022 22.13, Jason White wrote: On 31/5/22 14:11, David P Á wrote: Other problem with accessibility is comments and tracked changes on Writer. The issues with these systems make using Writer problematic in professional settings. I agree, and in particular, the screen

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 31/05/2022 14.20, Jason White wrote: It seems to be very much a matter of unaddressed bugs and regressions. The Document Foundation advertised a contract (presumably fulfilled by now) to rewrite the accessibility regression testing infrastructure in C++. FWIW, that conversion to C++ is

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 31/05/2022 16.24, Christophe Strobbe wrote: I don't have a comprehensive overview of LibreOffice UI accessibility either, unfortunately. However, if you are looking for ways to prioritise issues, one way may be based on the accessibility requirements in the ETSI standard EN 301 549, which

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 31/05/2022 12.36, Caolán McNamara wrote: If the overview is there are a thousand little things and not a small set of large scale specific projects then that's still a useful overview. We could still sweep them into some general themes. Indeed. Thanks for adding the subtopics that came up

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 31/05/2022 12.01, Colomban Wendling wrote: * Only on-screen elements of the document are exposed to ATs.  This is on purpose probably for performance (not sure if we have any numbers to base it on?) so elements are lazy-loaded and destroyed, but it has non-trivial impact on various AT

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-03 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 16:24 +0200, Christophe Strobbe wrote: > Hi Michael, Caolán, all, > ... > (2) With regard to document formats, continue improving PDF/UA > conformance for exported PDF documents. ... (Institutions that have > been established to monitor compliance with the EU's Web >

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-06-03 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 09:41 -0500, Devin Prater wrote: > A lot of toolbar widgets in Writer don't seem to be accessible, like > the ones to create forms and such. I created a sub category to capture the theme that various widgets have accessibility failings, your toolbar case, the extension

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-05-31 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 31/05/2022 à 01:57, Michael Weghorn a écrit : On 30/05/2022 11.08, Caolán McNamara wrote: For a11y I don't know what is seen as the major problems, is there some fundamentally missing pieces (like in the past not having direct windows IAccessible2 support and needing a java access bridge).

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-05-31 Thread Devin Prater
A lot of toolbar widgets in Writer don't seem to be accessible, like the ones to create forms and such. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:31 AM Christophe Strobbe wrote: > Hi Michael, Caolán, all, > > I don't have a comprehensive overview of LibreOffice UI

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-05-31 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Michael, Caolán, all, I don't have a comprehensive overview of LibreOffice UI accessibility either, unfortunately. However, if you are looking for ways to prioritise issues, one way may be based on the accessibility requirements in the ETSI standard EN 301 549, which defines the

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-05-31 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 23:57 +, Michael Weghorn wrote: > On 30/05/2022 11.08, Caolán McNamara wrote: > > For a11y I don't know what is seen as the major problems, is there > > some fundamentally missing pieces (like in the past not having > > direct windows IAccessible2 support and needing a

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26

2022-05-30 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 30/05/2022 11.08, Caolán McNamara wrote: For a11y I don't know what is seen as the major problems, is there some fundamentally missing pieces (like in the past not having direct windows IAccessible2 support and needing a java access bridge). Or are the fundamentals ok and its a matter of a