[libreoffice-accessibility] IAccessible2 / LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org

Hi Kevin, All,

(I'm answering Kevin's question in a separate thread.)

When I browsed the OpenOffice.org source code at 
<http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html>, I found a 
lot of Java Accessibility code but nothing that looked like 
IAccessible2 code (which should contain some names starting with 
IAccessible...). Unless I looked in the wrong place, there is no 
IAccessible2 code that can be reused by LibreOffice. I have asked 
where the IAccessible2 code ended up on two mailing lists and 
contacted someone at IBM (i.e. the person who seemed to have checked 
in most of the source code). I have not received any answers, so I 
don't know what is going on. In my opinion, this makes a rather 
strange impression, especially since IBM reportedly donated that code 
to Oracle and an Oracle developer wrote in June (on the Apache 
Incubator list) that he was quite sure it would find its way to Apache OOo...

I hope Oracle and/or IBM will soon clarify the situation. As long as 
it remains unclear if the IAccessible2 code will be released or not, 
LibreOffice cannot decide whether it should reuse the code or 
reinvent that particular wheel.

The LibreOffice bug about enabling AT support during the installation 
is still open: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39803>.


At 13:29 8-9-2011, Kevin Cussick wrote:
"(...) Can someone give a summary to how ia2 support is coming 
along?  or maybe not?  i have heard it is now being worked on is this 
true?  I would like to be able to just download and install without 
going threw hoops to get it working with the access bridge software. 
If ia2 is not being worked on at the moment I think the accessibility 
switch should be on buy default or if not during install you should 
be asked do you want this switched on buy default?  and do you want 
to install the access bridge?  this would be OK until such times the 
ia2 support that has been in sinthony for a long time now makes its 
way into the current code with thanks as always."


Best regards,

Christophe



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