[libreoffice-marketing] accessibility; screen-readers and such

Hi :)  
Accessibility features usually work reasonably well in LO but they rely on Java so they do go wrong 
a bit too often.  Recently Stuart Foote put together an Faq page on how to fix it when it goes 
badly wrong.  

The docs team are possibly about to expand the next version of their guides to include links to 
this Faq
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Java
and maybe a brief line or so to help experienced experts work it out for themselves.  

Annoyingly IBM gave all their accessibility code to Apache and that was quite a significant chunk 
of the accessibility stuff.  Since Apache have it there might be licensing problems about trying to 
get the code into LO.  I can't imagine the LO devs being happy about the need to re-write it in 
Python or something before getting up to the same level as what is already out there!  However, 
since the IBM stuff seems to depend heavily on Java it's work that they would probably have done 
anyway.  

Anyway.  It's good for us that a total star (Stuart) from the accessibility mailing list has put 
together the Faq-page about getting the "Java Accessibility Bridge" working.  So, now we can show 
off that a small(ish) but significant amount of accessibility stuff will work.  

Regards from
Tom :)  

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