[libreoffice-accessibility] IAccessible2 in Apache OpenOffice.org

Hi,

Yet another update:

* On 12 September, Malte Timmermann suggested on the Apache OOo Dev 
list that IAccessible2 should be integrated into OpenOffice.org after 
the first release by Apache: 
<http://www.mail-archive.com/ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg05680.html>. 
(As long as IAccessible2 has not been integrated into the OOo trunk, 
I don't expect LibreOffice to do any integration work.)

* IBM has hired a few "new" developers to work on OpenOffice.org. I 
put "new" in quotation marks because these developers have been 
involved in OpenOffice.org or StarOffice for at least 10 years (see 
the intros of Armin Le Grand and Herbert Duerr on the Apache OOo Dev list).

* Yesterday, Jean-Philippe Mengual sent a message to the Apache OOo 
dev list asking about the integration of IAccessible2 
<http://www.mail-archive.com/ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg06221.html>. 
Jean-Philippe Mengual is a member of the accessiblity working group 
of April, a French organisation that defends and promotes open-source 
software [1]. One of the responses was by Steve Lee, who encourages 
people to make clear - on blogs, mailing lists, ... -  that there is 
a strong demand for IAccessible2: 
<http://www.mail-archive.com/ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg06271.html>.

Best regards,

Christophe

[1] You don't need to be French to become a member of April 
<http://www.april.org/>, but communication between members is in the 
language of Voltaire (or Houellebecq, if you prefer). So if you're 
looking for a reason to brush up your French ... ;-)


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