[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and VoiceOver

Hi :)
I am just forwarding this to the Accessibility List just in case anyone here knows something Alex 
doesn't.  Alex is usually very up-to-date but i can always hope that things are better on Mac.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Alexander Thurgood <hidden>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 16:38
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and VoiceOver
>
> Le 29/11/12 16:21, Patrick Adams a écrit :
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > Please someone tell me this maybe a faulty installation and what I can do about that (yes I can 
> > download again but don't want to waste time if this lack of accessibility for VoiceOver is 
> > reality. Or perhaps there are some settings that need altering, I could not make any sense of 
> > the settings window, nothing worked and nothing led to anywhere.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Sorry to disappoint you, but LibreOffice is not "fully accessible" on
> the Mac. Your experience pretty much sums up the limited support for
> people with disabilities on that platform attempting to use LibreOffice.
>
> In addition, using VoiceOver and other accessibility tools with
> LibreOffice is known to cause random crashes. The reason is that the
> accessibility calls rely on an obsolescent programming interface which
> has since officially been declared deprecated by Apple, so until someone
> within the project manages to convince a Mac developer to join and help
> fix those issues, your problems will not be solved. There are or were
> plans to integrate IBM's developments for Symphony of a newer
> accessibility API into LibreOffice, but that has not happened for the
> moment as far as I know, and yet we keep hearing about it every now and
> then.
>
>
> For the time being, your best bet is to stick to the application that
> currently works best for you, but I sincerely doubt that that
> application is LibreOffice.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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