RE: off-list wb!! Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Latest LibreOffice and Java access Bridge

Tom,

Hi. Haven't gone anywhere. Just not much to correspond about.  I've been lurking over on Apache 
OpenOffice lists which are struggling to bring together devs, qa and infrastructure with their 
"graduation".

Unfortunately, the winaccessibility IAccessible2 implementation of the IBM Symphony contribution 
(or the rest of Symphony base line) did not get picked up for inclusion in the current development 
effort. So it has NOT been released as open source and the responsible IBM devs are working on 
their contributions in house. That is bad for LibreOffice because there has been some reluctance to 
start from scratch on building a native bridge for Windows OS implementing IAccessible2 <-> UNO 
Accessibility API anticipating the IBM contribution would be released near term.

So, we'll either have to  continue to wait. Or one of our LibreOffice developers would need to take 
an interest and use either the NSAccessibility (OSX) or AT/ATK (Linux & GNOME) bridge as a model to 
expose the UNO Accessibility API roles as IAccessible2 for the Windows builds.

But, what really should happen is that the UNO Accessibility API should be scrubbed for additional 
functionality--adjusting the NSAccessibility and AT/ATK bridges accordingly--and a new Windows 
bridge conceived. It could be IAccessible2/MSAA based or even Microsoft UIAutomation/IAccessibleEx 
based.  Point is that the base line UNO Accessibility API does need some additional work. And since 
it is the framework for ALL LibreOffice Accessibility the development could be spread across a 
broader pool of developers and done correctly.

Stuart

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From: Tom Davies [tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:29 AM
To: V Stuart Foote
Subject: off-list wb!! Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Latest LibreOffice and Java access Bridge

Hi :)

Great to find you on the list again!  Also good about the positive news but the main thing is 
finding a new post from you chap.  Hopefully a few other people might start posting again now if i 
haven't scared them off again already.
Regards from
Tom  :)


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