Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Introduction: Developing Libre Aria for LibreOffice Accessibility

Hi Scott,

welcome, and thanks for your introduction and ideas.

As mentioned before in our direction interaction, contributions, new 
ideas and suggestions on how to improve LibreOffice accessibility are 
very welcome and I'm curious and happy to discuss concrete proposals and 
what that new approach you mention could look like in practice.

Best regards,
Michael

On 2026-09-28 12:08, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello there everyone,
>
>
> My name is Scott and I am a new contributor to Libre Office 
> accessibility.  I am thinking about a new accessibility layer called 
> Libre Aria.  Libre Aria is a system where by we can fix a lot of 
> accessibility bugs across the whole Libre Office system. It all starts 
> out as Little patches which will eventually make the whole map of Libri 
> Aria. Libre Aria will cover all the different accessibility bugs and it 
> will handle most minor accessibility issues which are found in Libre 
> Office.  One of the cool things I find exciting is devs won't have to 
> play with it but they can certainly enhance this as they see fit.  I 
> have been thinking about starting out with links.  For example, links in 
> Writer in the latest dev version which is
>
> the development edition 26.2 work fine. However, I still have questions 
> as to whether things like Calc work which in my testing does prove a no 
> answer.  I am totally blind myself and i use NVDA screen reader with a 
> braille display as needed and I have lots of other technological 
> utilities that I can leverage if needed.  I'd like to thank everyone for 
> reading my introduction and I'd like to ask the we all talk about this 
> and see what we may be able to work out to fix all these bugs because as 
> we all know when we have a lot of the accessibility bugs fixed we'll 
> have much higher production.--
> Scott Berry Email: sb356607@gmail.com


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