Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility of images with alternative text in LibreOffice Writer

Hey Michael.

I just removed _generateDescription (not just the part you cited) from
the soffice script so the default logic will now be used. If Orca starts
finding and presenting unhelpful descriptions in LibreOffice, let's
remove those descriptions from LibreOffice.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/commit/62e8a08fe27883cb46443da8078850627660cf17

Thanks for looking into this!
--joanie

On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 07:12 +0000, Michael Weghorn wrote:
> On 2024-06-19 08:48, Michael Weghorn wrote:
> > On 2024-06-18 14:38, Jason J.G. White wrote:
> > > > Orca does however announce the accessible *name* (not the description 
> > > > by default, at least in my setup) when using the "To Next Frame" 
> > > > shortcut Shift+F4 to select the image.
>
> Whether or not the accessible description is announced by Orca is 
> generally configurable in Orca's settings. But it turns out that even 
> when announcing descriptions is enabled in Orca, the description is not 
> announced for objects in LibreOffice.
>
> It turns out that this was explicitly disabled in Orca for LibreOffice 
> (except for "WhereAmI" mode) in the past, in this commit:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/commit/1121a27b10b4b5804c90f616154514cdce30d246
>
> If I remove that locally for testing, Orca does announce the image 
> description as well when the image gets focus via Shift+F4.
>
> If it's desirable to have descriptions announced, eliminating the 
> unnecessary "chattiness" observed in the past (if it's still known what 
> that is) and then changing Orca to announce descriptions again might be 
> a way forward.
>
> @joanie: Any thoughts on that?


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