Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Windows LO with JAWS

This is distressing. Several years ago, JAWS was working reasonably well 
with LibreOffice, if my memory is correct, but I have also encountered 
the same problem with more recent versions. As you say, NVDA offers much 
better support. While NVDA has been my screen reader of choice for nine 
years I would encourage users of JAWS to contact VFO at support@vfo.com 
to let them know your feelings regarding the lack of support being 
offered by JAWS for this excellent suite.



David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
On 5/4/2018 2:59 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> Bryen Yunashko wrote
> > ... A couple of months ago, I installed LibreOffice and had great
> > difficulty because often when I started up LO, Jaws would stop working and
> > then restart itself.
> >
> > A number of buttons and fields didn't work either.   So, I put it aside
> > for a while.   This week I decided to try again and asked someone to
> > update the latest LO as the inplace update button wasn't accessible for
> > me.
> >
> > Now, when I start LO, it does not even speak anything.  It is completely
> > "hidden."   But I know LO is actually running because I will randomly type
> > some text, then press Alt+F4 to close the program and I get a prompt to
> > save or discard my file.
> >
> > But while LO is open, nothing works.  No menu button, tabs, arrow keys,
> > nothing.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?
> Completely normal...
>
> LibreOffice implements a native Windows accessibility bridge based on the
> opensource IAccessible2 API
>
> Reference:
> http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/
>
> Unfortunately for JAWS users Freedom Scientific has never seen fit to
> implement modular support for IA2, so the short answer is it is known and
> JAWS willl not work with LibreOffice.
>
> You will need to install NVDA as a free and open source Windows backup to
> JAWS. The screen reader navigation is a bit different--but fidelity of IA2
> accessible content is much better.  LibreOffice accessible event based
> support is pretty complete--and its screen review/Graphics API "screen
> scraping" rounds things out.
>
> Available here:
> https://www.nvaccess.org/
>
> Let us know how you make out.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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