Re: [libreoffice-users] Reality Check - Windows Java Accessibility API non-functional for ALL LibreOffice 3.6.x releases to date

Hi :)
Is anyone able to post a bug-report about this?  It sounds pretty serious!
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 1:11
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Reality Check - Windows Java Accessibility API non-functional for ALL 
> LibreOffice 3.6.x releases to date
>
>
> LibreOffice versions 3.6.0 and later have not correctly implemented the Java Access Bridge (JAB) 
> modules used to expose the Java Accessibility API roles for Windows users.
>
> It took me a little while to work out the testing methods, but the Oracle test utilities 
> JavaFerret-32 and JavaMonkey-32 show that LibreOffice is not implementing the Java Accessibility 
> API and therefore does not expose accessibility roles to Assistive Technologies.
>
> Neither JAB v.2.0.2 or v 2.0.3, nor current JRE version 1.6u35 or 1.7u7 will make a difference.
>
> I tested LibreOffice builds 3.6.0.4, 3.6.1.2, 3.6.2.2, and 3.6.3.1 none of which are functional.
>
> In addition today I completed testing of ALL builds of LibreOffice from 3.4.5 to 3.5.7rc2.  With 
> exception of the 3.5.0 build they all correctly map Java Accessibility API roles to UNO 
> Accessibility roles. 
>
> The Java Accessibility API is not as comprehensive as the IAccessible2 role mappings provided by 
> IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1, but it is functional for the 3.4 and 3.5 releases of LibreOffice.  And, 
> for these versions Windows  Assistive Technologies will work. For example, the Windows NVDA screen 
> reader will function with cursor control and component announcements for the entire document tree.
>
> Windows versions of LibreOffice 3.6, including the current build 3.6.3 rc1, are NOT USEABLE with 
> Assistive Technologies and they have not been usable with Windows Assistive Technologies at any 
> point.
>
> For folks that I've mislead with my insistence that all is well with LibreOffice 3.6 and Java 
> Access Bridge and JRE with use of Assistive Technologies like NVDA screen reader I was wrong--I 
> apologize.
> I've updated the FDO#53474 (http:  bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53474 ) 
> and would encourage folks to vote, i.e. comment on, the enhancement to implement IAccessible2 API  
> ( http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement ) for Windows builds by incorporating 
> the IBM contributed Symphony code base as a replacement of the Java Accessibility API as that is 
> probably the fastest means of bringing Windows builds of LibreOffice to the same functional level 
> as Linux builds that use the ATK AT-SPI accessibility APIs.
>
> Stuart
>
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