Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

Hi,


(I was away from this list for a while because I moved to a different
employer and a different country earlier this year.)


Am Di, 20.11.2012, 16:48 schrieb Marc Paré:
> (...)
> To the accessibility team, if there was funding available for such a
> thing, what would your items be and in order of preference. I know in my
> local school boards Dragon Speaking is a requirement, that is, unless
> there is an equivalent replacement.

That's an interesting question, since I prepared a presentation on
LibreOffice accessibility for FOSDEM 2012 but I had to cancel it (force
majeure, basically).

The issues can be divided into two categories:
1. The accessibility of LibreOffice itself. The most important blocker is
the missing implementation of IAccessible2 (the Java Accessibility API is
not sufficiently supported on Windows). There are also a few issues on
Gnome. (My presentation for FOSDEM contained bug IDs etc.)
2. Features that allow you to create accessible content - not only
accessible ODF documents, but also formats that you can "save as" or
export, e.g. HTML and PDF.  (Again, my presentation for FOSDEM contained
bug IDs etc.)

I would say that the IAccessible2 issue is the biggest one. It's been a
while since I was involved in discussions about this, but the LibreOffice
developers were basically waiting for the IAccessible2 implementation in
OpenOffice.org, which they would then borrow. (In order to avoid
duplication of efforts.)

I'm sure other list members will chime in with comments.



> Another funding wishlist item could be that the TDF/LibreOffice help
> fund an Accessibility conference where some of the leading members of
> the accessibility team along with other interested partners could meet
> to try to solve bottlenecks in development for LibreOffice.

Not sure if it necessary to fund a conference. Do you mean travel costs?
The LibreOffice conferences should be good opportunities, but my
experience in Paris last year was that it is difficult to get developers
to attend an accessibility presentation when there are technical tracks
running in parallel.


> It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software providers
> to see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative development
> could take place.

This reminds me of earlier work to enable OOo support in Dragon Naturally
Speaking:
<https://blogs.oracle.com/malte/entry/speech_recognition_for_openoffice_org>.
I don't know if this still works.


Best regards,

Christophe


> ===============
>
> Would there be any other items that you could think of to put on your
> wishlist?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
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