Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-26 [IAccessible2 support in JAWS]

Hi Michael, All,

(Apologies if this message has too many addressees; I'm not sure which ones I should drop.)

After some online searching, it seems that JAWS at least used to support IAccessible2, originally 
mainly for IBM Lotus Symphony. 
According to a tweet by Marco Zehe from December last year, JAWS handles Chromium and Edge via 
IAccessible2. (See https://twitter.com/MarcoInEnglish/status/1471523578805997570 )
Twitter is not an ideal source, but I couldn't find any documentation related to IAccessible2 on 
Freedom Scientific's website. They do have documentation on to use script access to UIAutomation: 
https://support.freedomscientific.com/support/jawsdocumentation/UIAScriptAPI but nothing similar 
for IAccessible2.
This calls for some LibreOffice testing with JAWS; I hope to do some of that next weekend.

Best regards,

Christophe Strobbe


> On 07 June 2022 at 11:25 Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> (...) 
>
> One other aspect that came to my mind:
>
> For Windows, we currently support IAccessible2, but not UIA.
> That's fine for NVDA, but I have heard/read at times that other screen 
> readers/AT rely more on UIA. (But I haven't done any further research so 
> far.)
> Does anybody know more about this and whether it would actually be 
> necessary to implement native UIA support in LO for those AT to properly 
> interact with LO?
> (Or is it more about having proper plugins/app modules/scripts for LO 
> for the single AT, since e.g. NVDA and JAWS appear to rely heavily on 
> those to properly support specific apps?)

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