Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] reading cell headers in libreoffice calc

Hi,

On 2026-05-17 21:53, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> I have a financial spreadsheet aht I made in calc, latest windows11, latest
> NVDA 2026, all table info turned on in NVDA. How do I make calc read me the
> column heading to remind me what column I am in when arrowing down a
> column? bills are in the A column, the B column is titled: amounts. At
> least calc tells me when a cell has a formula and I can edit it with f2.

Writer supports defining column headers (e.g. by specifying the number 
of header rows in the "Table" -> "Insert Table"), but I'm currently not 
aware of any equivalent to set such semantic header information for Calc 
in a way that would be available to assistive technology. To my 
knowledge, NVDA also doesn't implement the feature for setting custom 
row/column headers for LibreOffice Calc so far. Related NVDA issues:

https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/17274
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/15394


> also, is there an accessible way to access chart information?

It's possible to manually set a text alternative for charts. Apart from 
that, data/information/settings for the chart should be available in the 
corresponding properties dialogs for that chart. If you have anything 
particular else in mind, creating a corresponding feature request in 
Bugzilla might be a good way forward to keep track of it.


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