Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] some issues with screen reader accessibility

How does the spell checker work with Narrator?

Dave


On 10/23/2023 2:51 AM, Michael Weghorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-10-12 14:02, Michael Weghorn wrote:
> > I think the best way forward is to switch to adhere to the 
> > IAccessible2 specification and report the "invalid:spelling" 
> > attribute for spelling errors.
> > That also needs a modification in NVDA to longer expect the custom 
> > attributes.
> >
> > Once that's implemented, we'll see whether that already makes the 
> > announcement of misspelled words work as expected or more is needed.
> >
> > I'm currently working on that, see the following bug report I created 
> > for more details:
> > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157696
>
> That's done now and announcement of spelling errors when NVDA 
> announces a line in Writer works with the LibreOffice changes from the 
> above-mentioned Bugzilla ticket and the corresponding NVDA change ( 
> https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/15649 ) in place, i.e. it will 
> work with the upcoming versions LibreOffice 24.2 and NVDA 2024.1.
>
> The fact that LibreOffice was switched from custom attributes to 
> attributes according to the IAccessible2 specification also implies 
> that assistive technology that was previously only supporting the 
> custom attributes has to be adapted to accept the IAccessible2 text 
> attributes now.
>
> For NVDA, this has been implemented in the pull request mentioned 
> above. If you rely on the feature of announcing formatting 
> information, I'd recommend to update NDVA to 2024.1 next year before 
> updating to LibreOffice 2024.2. (Announcement for text formatting will 
> not work with NVDA 2023.x and LibreOffice 2024.2 and above).
>
> In a quick test with JAWS, it didn't announce any text attributes when 
> pressing Keypad_Insert+F, neither with nor without the recent 
> LibreOffice changes in place, so it seems like that's not implemented 
> there at all. (I can't take any closer look because that's a closed 
> source product.)
>
> If anybody wants to test the current development versions, I'm happy 
> about feedback.
>
> If anybody is aware of other assistive technology that should be taken 
> into account, I'm thankful if you either notify the developers 
> yourself or let me know so I can take care of this.
>
> Regards,
> Michael

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