RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility Regressions Observed With Writer 7.5.1 and JAWS 2023

Hello. As of yesterday JAWS 2023 is now reading text in the manner expected when navigating a 
Writer document using arrow key navigation. From the changelog:
Resolved an issue with JAWS not reading text entered into a document in LibreOffice Writer.
https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/Fusion/FusionWhatsNew#enhancements

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de> 
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2023 7:18 AM
To: David Goldfield <dgoldfield1211@gmail.com>; accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility Regressions Observed With Writer 7.5.1 and 
JAWS 2023

On 2023-05-07 05:23, David Goldfield wrote:
> Michael Weghorn wrote:
> > (I'd suggest to either query for the toolkit name, which is "VCL" or 
> > support not just "LibreOffice" as app name, but also 
> > "LibreOfficeDev", which is the
> name that the development version uses, and app names for 
> vendor-specific LibreOffice derivatives.) Can you please report that to JAWS/Freedom Scientific 
> (and keep this mailing list up to date on the outcome)?
>
> Done. It took me a while to do this for reasons not relevant to this list. I received a very 
> prompt response from FS which said:
>
> "This is Nicki. this has actually been reported to our development department, so hopefully, it 
> will be fixed soon."

Great, thanks!

Michael


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