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

Hello,

All read and understood.

Thanks for your explanation,  I have to say it seems that oo and IBM are 
dragging there feet with this one.

I have been in touch with malt Timmerman over the last year or so but I 
have not really gotten anywhere.

I hope you will keep us vi users informed if you hear of ia2 support 
being added into the code.

The reason that accessibility is not switched on by default in oo is 
that it does take a bit longer because the program has to shake hands 
with access bridge and window's.

I am not a programer but I would like to have the program just work out 
of the box like sinthony does.

This code has been around for quite some time now and for some reason it 
seems that oo does not seem to want to get on and put it into the program.

The last time i asked about this on the oo list I was told that it will 
be ready when it's ready not very helpful.  I look forward to hearing 
good news in the near future P.S I use nvda for window's an open source 
screen reader I am sure you have heard of it but just in case you can 
check it out..

On 08/09/2011 13:49, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> 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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All The Best
Kevin Cussick

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