Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Windows LO with JAWS

Since you all can take code from OO, can't you take basically, all of 
their accessibility information and use it in LO? I mean, I stopped 
using JAWS years ago, but I heard from other people that JAWS works with 
OO? Would that be a lot of work? Taking all of the accessibility 
information from OO because OO is very accessible, just not updated or 
even nearly as stable.


On 5/4/2018 4:18 PM, David Goldfield wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sent from: 
> > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility-f2006038.html


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