- Tim Böttcher <contact@tim-boettcher.email>
- Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:12:02 +0100
Hi,
I'm on Debian (Bookworm) running on a RaspBerry Pi 5, LibreOffice 7.4.7.2, BRLTTY 6.8, Orca 48.7,
MATE desktop.
When launching any LibreOffice program, such as LibreOffice writer, I can only see the window
titles, but nothing that happens within the program. Keyboard input is getting passed through to
the program correctly, e.g., CTRL+O triggers the file picker, but said file picker is also
inaccessible (i.e., I can only see the window title).
As per my digging on the internet and conversations with assorted chatbots, this is supposed to be
a Java accessibility thing. However, none of the listed fixes (notably editing
/etc/java-17-openjdk/accessibility.properties) changes anything. Exporting an environment variable
with the relevant settings for AtkWrapper gets picked up by Java correctly, but also doesn't make a
difference. Interestingly, even with Java completely purged from my system, LibreOffice Writer
still opens, so I suspect it bundles its own JRE and it's possible that isn't receiving the proper
accessibility instructions.
I'd appreciate any suggestions at this point because I'm stumped.
Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Tim Böttcher
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