Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Setting up accessibility for screen reader

Hi,

With regard to checking the option "Support assisitve technology 
tools" by default:
Should we make a feature request to include this checkbox in the installer?
Or is the installer insufficiently accessible to make this useful?

Best regards,

Christophe


At 11:07 4-8-2011, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> Hi Jean-Philippe,
>
> At 15:16 3-8-2011, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> >(...) Here's what reported an user of Windows
> >Vista, with the screen reader NVDA.
> >
> >At the 1st starting of LibreOffice, NVDA doesn't work. In options menu,
> >accessibility tab, NVDA says the tabs but then, doesn't read anymore the
> >dialogue. The user checks then the checkbox "support software for
> >disabled people". He asks now: couldn't this checkbox checked by
> >default? If not, it'd be important to give a way to a blind people to do
> >the above process with some audio help, as NVDA doesn't speak until this
> >checkbox is checked.
>
> I once read or heard that the option "Support assisitve technology 
> tools" was not checked by default because if affects performance. 
> Unfortunately, I can't retrieve the source of that statement anymore.
>
> >Finally, note that libreoffice isn't accessible on XP, whereas it works
> >with Vista. I don't understand well why.
>
> I have not heard of this before. How did you determine this? Is this 
> based on inspection with Java accessibility tools (Ferret, etcetera) 
> or on testing with specific screen readers? If it was based on 
> testing with screen readers, were the same screen readers and 
> versions used on both Windows XP and Vista? Was the Java Access 
> Bridge installed on both systems? (I suppose you'll say: "Of 
> course!") Did you have the same versions of Java on both systems?
>
> Best regards,
> Christophe
>
> >Thanks for your answer, especially on the 1st point (the checkbox
> >checked by default).
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
> --
> Christophe Strobbe


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