RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice 4.2 and Window-eyes 8.4

It would surprise me to see fast turnaround on this issue.  Window Eyes
recently signed a deal with Microsoft making their product free for users of
Microsoft Office 2010 and higher.  This makes me doubt that any serious
resources will be dedicated towards this issue on their part as there could
exist a conflict of interest.  They do, however, have a thriving user
community that frequently submits scripts and plugins from whom a solution
may come some day.  Just don't expect it to be real soon.  I'd recommend you
use NVDA which can be installed along side any commercial screen reader and
just deactivate Window eyes when you are in Libre Office in favor of NVDA.  

Regards,
Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: V Stuart Foote [mailto:VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu] 
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 10:25 AM
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice 4.2 and Window-eyes 8.4

@Marco, *,

Thanks.  Heard back from GW Micro, they said use a Java JRE and JAB. 
Mentioned that JAB support was being dropped for both projects.  Response
was a non-committal, that they would  "pass this on to our developers for
investigation".

> From: Marco Zehe <marco.zehe@googlemail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 1:21 AM
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I can reproduce this. This is another indication of the way WindowEyes 
> is architected. They have support for IAccessible2, at least they use 
> it in part in Firefox, but their support is not crafted in a way that 
> it can be used universally, but is either used or enabled on a per-app 
> basis. My fear is that, if they enable it for Apache OpenOffice, this 
> may not automatically mean they would use it for LibreOffice, too. 
> Their current tailoring simply does not take into account that the 
> LibreOffice interface may change from JAB to something else. 
> Frustrating, but that's the way this thing works apparently.
>
> So no error on your part! :)
>
> Marco



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